Journal of Linguistics & Khorasan Dialects

Linguistics and Khorasan dialects

Some Important Features Differentiating between the Khorasani Group of Persian Dialects and the Varieties of the Afghan-Tajiki Group

Youli Ioannesyan

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 1-29

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The study examined five characteristics of the Khorasani Group of Persian Dialects distinguishing it from the Afghan-Tajiki group. These characteristics consist of two phonetic and two morphological features as well as one relating to prepositions. Though not representing all the distinguishing features ... Read More

Linguistics

A Corpus-Based Study on the Preposition /az/ (From) in Textbooks of Grades 1 to 6: A Cognitive Approach

Azam Alijani; Masood Ghayoomi; Maryam MesgarKhoyi; Houriyeh Ahadi; Yalda Delgoshaei

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 31-53

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The present study aimed to study the preposition /az/ (i.e., from) in primary school textbooks. Polysemy of prepositions is one of the sources of many students’ perception. A text corpus developed for this study from Farsi, Practical Science, Heavenly Gifts, and Social Studies of elementary school ... Read More

Pragmatics

A Review and Investigation on Cappelen and Lepore's Semantic Minimalism using Persian Language Data

Mohammadreza Pahlavannezhad

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 55-73

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The present study reviewed Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore’s theory of Semantic Minimalism. This theory was proposed as a universal semantic theory in linguistics in 2005. In this article, the Semantic Minimalism theory was examined in Persian language and on the data of this language. By examining ... Read More

Discourse analysis

Narrative Complexity in Monolingual and Bilingual 4-6 Year Old Children: A Case Study of Tehran and Juybar

atoosa rostambeik

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 75-107

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Assessing the development of narrative skills is one of the practical and frequently used methods in research related to bilingualism, language acquisition, and language impairment. Tools designed based on the story grammar which focus on both cognitive and linguistic skills have attracted a lot of attention. ... Read More

Word construction

A Constructional Analysis of Compound Words taken from the Past Stem "Gasht" in Persian Language

Fatemeh Zohrabi; Adel rafiei

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 109-128

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The present study examined compound words ending in the past stem "Gasht" in construction morphology. This research tried to describe the diachronic and synchronic of the semantic variations and the schematic system of the words resulting from this construction. The data included 202 compound words collected ... Read More

Syntax

A Comparative Study of the Linguistic Perspectives of Two Contemporary Arab Grammarians: A Methodological Criticism Maedeh Bigom Shirazi

Maedeh bigom Shirazi; Seyed hossein Seyedi; Ahmad Reza Heidarian Shahri

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 129-150

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The nineteenth century can be considered a time when modern Arab thought formed, and contemporary linguistic research was also born in line with other Arab intellectual fields. Modernist linguists presented their new findings, derived from contemporary linguistic approaches to the Arabic-speaking readership. ... Read More

Syntax

Ellipsis Phenomena within the Clause; A Phase-Based Approach

Shabnam Majidi; Fatemeh Bahrami; Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, Pages 151-185

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Ellipsis phenomena or deletions, in traditional generative terms, involve a number of cases where otherwise expected syntactic material goes missing under some conditions. How to formulate a generalization that can explain all types of deletion has been a central question since the dawn of Principle ... Read More Ellipsis phenomena or deletions, in traditional generative terms, involve a number of cases where otherwise expected syntactic material goes missing under some conditions. How to formulate a generalization that can explain all types of deletion has been a central question since the dawn of Principle and Parameters Theory. The present study endeavored to take a step towards this goal within the framework of phase-based minimalist syntax in order to provide a comprehensive explanation of various types of ellipsis in Persian clauses. To achieve this, at first, the main issues of ellipsis were outlined and the success of the different accounts available in the literature were evaluated. Then, the split-C system was introduced and the functional projections dominating the Tense Phrase were examined in order to identify the projection that forms the upper phase in Persian. The empirical evidence shows that, similar to German, the typical complementizers like “ke” (that) and “ta” (in order to) are generated in the head of Finite Phrase (FinP) in Persian and then raises to the head of the Force Phrase (ForceP), thus, the FinP should be considered the upper phase, which triggers some deletion processes in the clause structure. Following this proposal, it was tried to provide a detailed description of the types of deletion within the clause and attempted to analyze the deleted structures such as gapping, pseudogapping, Right Node Raising, VP-ellipsis, sluicing, tag-question, and sentence fragmentation based on the minimalist approach. Ultimately, in the final section of the research, it was argue that the different types of deletion within the clause apply to the lower phase (vP) or upper phase (FinP) and eliminate the heads and/or constituents from the syntactic derivation. This analysis, relying on the post-syntactic operations of deletion and morphological merger, explains why in complex predicates, the non-verbal element can be either retained or deleted.

Discourse analysis

A Comparative Study of Linguistic Romanticism in the Poems of Ebtehaj and Ansi al-Haj using a Cognitive Approach

GhaderiTape Rasht Salim; Naser Hosini; Ardashir Sadraddini

Volume 15, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 143-121

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Cognitive linguistics, as one of the main categories of cognitive science, looks at language as a tool for discovering the structure of the human cognitive system. Cognitive semantics, as one of the basic fields of cognitive linguistics, has various theories such as image schemas, conceptual fusion, ... Read More

Linguistic typology

The Representation of Body Names in Expressing Emotions: A Typological View

Vali Rezai; Tahereh Samenian

Volume 15, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 27-1

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Lexical typology is related to the specific ways in which languages incorporate meaning into words. In this way, lexical typology, which deals with words, can be considered a sub-branch of semantic typology. Recently, studies in cognitive linguistics have shown how body parts act as a source for conceptualizing ... 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

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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

Critical Discourse Analysis

Patriarchy and Social Linguistics in Poetry; A Case Study of the Concept of Patriarchy in Iranian Myths

Ahmad Sepantamehr; Majidreza Khazaivafa; Ali Mandegar

Volume 15, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 89-53

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Language can be studied from various perspectives. One of the methods for studying linguistic variations in society is examining cultural sources such as stories, novels, musical productions, poems, and ancient myths. Among the topics that have received significant attention in the media and have an ... Read More

Neurology of the language

Thalamus and Bilingualism: Evidence from fMRI

Simin Meykadeh; Werner Sommer; Seyed a,mir hossien Batouli

Volume 15, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 51-29

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Bilingualism is associated with structural adaptations of subcortical regions taking part in controlling multiple languages. The thalamus is a paired gray matter structure located near the center of the brain, regulating the information transmission to cortical regions. In a recent fMRI study, the sensitivity ... Read More

Linguistic typology

Contrastive Analysis of Persian and Korean Syllable Structure Based on Typological Universals.

hamed mowlaei; Hossein Bazoubandi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 09 July 2024

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Contrastive Analysis which is based on structural linguistics tries to facilitate second language learning by focusing on the current phonological, morphological and syntactic differences of languages. The goal of this paper is comparing and contrasting the syllable of Persian and Korean according to ... Read More

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phonemics

Substitution of short vowels in English and Arabic words adopted by Persian: A Comparative Study

Bashir Jam

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 01 September 2024

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Sound substitution is a process whereby a phoneme in a loanword is replaced by its closest phone in the borrowing language. English and Arabic share short vowels // and // which are absent in Persian. This comparative study aimed at explaining how these vowels are substituted in Persian within ... Read More

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Implementation, development and evaluation of the online placement test based on Faraz Farsi educational collection

zahra Hajibagheri; Mahinnaz Mirdehghan Farashah

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 10 September 2024

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The placement test is a test with the purpose of providing information that determines the appropriate level of the learners in an educational course according to their abilities. Due to the rapid development of technology and its application in the field of education, the approach of testing has changed ... Read More

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Linguistic typology

Lexical Field and Language Universals Analysis of Body Parts in Persian and English: A Typological Approach

Vali Rezai; Mahdeih Abbaspour

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 25 September 2024

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This study employs a typological approach to examine the terminology used for lower body parts in Persian and English. The aim is to identify commonalities and divergences in the naming and categorization of human body parts, while also assessing the validity of proposed linguistic universals in this ... Read More

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Linguistics

Diachronic investigation of Persian kinship terminology

Elaheh Fathian; Mehrdad Naghzguy Kohan

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 03 October 2024

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All societies use kinship terms to address and to refer to one’s kin. Most studies that have investigated kin terms, have been done based on consanguineal and affinal kin criteria. In some societies, kin relations are established by other criteria. Therefore, cultural differences must be taken ... Read More

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Semantics

An Analysis of Meaning Generation Processes through Discourse Semiotic Systems in the Story of Zal and Roudabeh

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Maasoum; Marjan Akbari

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 October 2024

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Discourse-semiotics is a discipline that carries out a process study of language. This discipline considers the sign as the source and meaning as the goal of its work. Semiotics chooses discourse as its field of work. Since literature is one of the examples of dynamic discourses, discourse-semiotics ... Read More

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Dialectology

Computational Analysis of the Common Barahui Language Variety in the South of Kerman

Aliye Nakheipur Tezerj

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 October 2024

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The present study, by adopting a computational -quantitative approach and applying modern dialectometric methods, uses aggregative analysis for Barahui dialect common in Rudbar-e jonub dialect located in Kerman province. In this regard, with the help of the software packages of dilatometry and mapping, ... Read More

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Psychology of language

Language and Care: A Qualitative Study of Iranian Language Learners' Perceptions Based on Noddings' and Logstrup’s Care Theory

sahar malekian; Seyyed Mohammad Reza Adel; Mohammad Davoudi; Saeed Ghaniabadi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 08 November 2024

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The main objective of this qualitative study was to examine the relationships between teachers and language learners based on the care theory proposed by Noddings (1998) and Logstrup’s (1997). In this research, the concept of care is explored in relation to linguistic aspects such as verbal interaction ... Read More The main objective of this qualitative study was to examine the relationships between teachers and language learners based on the care theory proposed by Noddings (1998) and Logstrup’s (1997). In this research, the concept of care is explored in relation to linguistic aspects such as verbal interaction and meaning transfer, through which a caring relationship between the teacher and the student is established. Data were collected through interviews with ten language learners in these schools. The data were then analyzed using the coding stages of grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 1990) and MAXQDA software version 24. In this research, 22 sub-codes and four main codes were identified, leading to the development of a new theoretical model for the teacher-student care relationship. The main categories of this relationship included communication and interaction, teaching methods, understanding and support, and individual characteristics of teachers. Additionally, the subcategories encompassed: respect, reciprocal relationships, individual attention, patient listening to students, dialogue with students, relational literacy, teacher courage in initiating care relationships, honesty, compassion, encouragement, full engagement, motivational shifts, emotional support, trust-based communication, supportive environments, appropriate teaching methods, teacher availability, student interaction, realistic expectations from students, responsiveness, and the incorporation of fun and humor. Ultimately, this research demonstrates how psychological characteristics of language and applied linguistics can play a significant role in understanding and enhancing educational communications. The findings of this study suggest several educational implications for policymakers, teachers, and language learners from a psychological perspective, aiming to enhance their understanding and application of the concept of ‘care,’ which will contribute to teachers' professional growth and improve students' educational outcomes.

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