Volume 16 (2024)
Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
Volume 9 (2017)
Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
Volume 4 (2013)
Volume 3 (2012)
Volume 2 (2010)
Volume 1 (2009)
A Study of Code-switching and its Purposes and Social Factors affecting it Among Azeri Turkish-Persian-speaking Teachers in Urmia City

Mozhgan Habibi; Mahmoud Elyasi; Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad

Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 39-59

Abstract
  Extended Abstract Introduction As a remarkable topic in sociolinguistics, code-switching is a natural phenomenon among many bilingual communities throughout the world. Van Dulm (2007) describes this phenomenon as the use of two or more languages while making an utterance or a sentence. Azeri Turkish-Persian ...  Read More

A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in English and Persian News Reports about the September 11 Event

Sara Yazdani; Shahla Sharifi; Mahmoud Elyasi

Volume 8, Issue 15 , January 2017, , Pages 27-51

Abstract
  1. Introduction Hyland (2005) defines metadiscourse as a “cover term for the self-reflective expression used to negotiate interactional meanings in a text, assisting the writer (or speaker) to express a viewpoint and engage with reader as members of a particular community” (p. 37). Hyland has admitted ...  Read More

A Study of the Verbal Tense System in Adkan Dialect

Fatemeh Kazemi Motlagh; Mahmoud Elyasi; Azam Estaji

Volume 7, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 49-78

Abstract
  The paper aims at describing verbal tense system in the dialect of Adkan, a village in Khorasan-e Shomali Province in the northeast of Iran. It seems that this dialect is one of the Tati Dialects in the area. Since the main objective was to collect the oldest dialect, the data was gathered by interviewing ...  Read More

Some Language Learning Difficulties of Kurdish-Persian-Speaking Bilinguals in the Iranian City of Ilam; Some Compensatory Measures

Amir Karimipour; Mahmoud Elyasi

Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013

Abstract
  Bilinguals make up a high proportion of the world population. However, these speakers are facing miscellaneous language learning difficulties throughout the world. The situation would be exacerbated when the communicative role of language is considered. In other words, bilinguals usually feel discouraged ...  Read More

A Study of the Differences Between the Kurmanji Dialect of Biglar and Other Kurmanji Dialects of the Neighboring Villages

Javad Ghanbari Beglar; Mahmoud Elyasi; Ali Izanloo

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, , Pages 1-19

Abstract
  Kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of Kurdish Language. Apart from such countries as Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and some areas in western Iran, it is spoken in Khorasan-e Shomali and Khorasan-e Razavi Provinces in north-east Iran. The residents of Biglar –a village near Quchan in north-west ...  Read More