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Thematic role hierarchy violations in Persian Alzheimer’s patients

Shala Raqibdust; Omid Azad

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 1-25

Abstract
  Predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. Following Manouilidou, Almeida, Schwartz and Nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in Persian Alzheimer patients. To this end, the property of thematic role assignment ...  Read More

Motivating factors of postposing in Persian

Mohammad rasekhmahand; Maryam ghiyasvand

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 27-47

Abstract
  Postposing is a feature of spoken language. It is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. In this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, ...  Read More

Happiness conceptual metaphors in Persian: A cognitive corpus-driven approach

Mahdis Zoorvarz; Azita Afrashi; S. Mostafa Assi

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 49-72

Abstract
  This study investigates the conceptual metaphors of happiness in a representative corpus of Modern Persian. Making use of Persian Linguistic Database, we sampled a corpus of contemporary written texts, to represent modern colloquial Persian; then we tried to extract the relevant conceptual metaphors ...  Read More

The Semantic Network of the Preposition “ba” in Persian: A Congnitive Study

Shohreh Mokhtari; Hadaegh Rezaei

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 73-94

Abstract
  The Semantic Network of the Preposition 'ba' in Persian: A Cognitive Study As one of the widely used prepositions in Persian, 'ba' (i.e. with) may also function as an adjective particle or affix. This paper studies various meanings of preposition 'ba' within a cognitive lexical semantics framework. ...  Read More

A Semio-semantic Analysis of Manipulative Advertisements of Active and Tensive Types: A Comparison between the Discourse of the Domestic and Foreign Publications

Hamid Reza Shairi; Saeideh Entezari Maleki

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 95-117

Abstract
  he main objective of the advertising discourse is to encourage its viewer or reader to buy goods. This dialogue contains several inductive functions, including inductive functions of action and tension. The function of the induced action is an action-induced origin, whereas the function of the inductive ...  Read More

Phonological Processes in Mashahdi Speakers with Different Levels of Education Compared to the Standard Language

S. Mohhamad Hosseini-Maasoum; Toktam Hosseini

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, Pages 119-141

Abstract
  In sociolinguistics, the role of factors such as level of education in different aspects of language has always been the focus of attention. The present research, which was conducted in Mashhad, seeks to study phonological processes among educated and uneducated speakers compared to Standard Persian. ...  Read More