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Linguistics
Mood Grammatical Metaphors in the Listening Module of TOEFL Books: A Systemic Functional Grammar Approach

Rouhollah Yaghoubi; Ferdows Aghagolzadeh

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 1-26

Abstract
  The present research aims to describe and analyze the Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphors of Mood in the listening module of TOEFL official books, in the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). It attempts to ascertain an answer to the following question: “To what extent has TOEFL been ...  Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical analysis of mystical discourse in Hafez’s sonnets based on the ideational metafunction of language in Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics

Maryam Rashidi

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 27-65

Abstract
  The present research analyses Hafez's mystical language with an analytic-descriptive method and according to Norman Fairclough’s three levels pattern: description, interpretation and explanation. Then answers to this main issue: Why, how and by using which lingual structures did Hafez create his ...  Read More

Semantics
Analysis of conventional thought trace in Simin Behbahani's poetry with regard to the issue of metaphorical creativity and conceptual blending

Arash Aghabozorgian Masoumkhani; Maryam Iraji

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 67-95

Abstract
  In this research, we have studied Simin Behbahani’s poetry on basis of conceptual metaphor theory in which extending, elaborating, questioning and composing devices are employed to create novel metaphors from the conventional materials of everyday language and thought. Then, qualitative characteristics ...  Read More

Neurology of the language
The Effectiveness of Social Stories on Some Syntactic Features of Children with Autism

Shabnam Besharati; Marjan Taheri Osgouei; Hooshang Dadgar; Nazanin Amirarjmandi

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 97-118

Abstract
  Autism Spectrum Disorder children have problems with social interaction, and in producing and comprehending language structures. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of telling social stories on the use of syntactic features of speech in children with autism.This was an Interventional, ...  Read More

Semantics
Investigation of the Semantic Signs of Images in Attar's Masnavis

Eshrat Ishanagha; Mohammad Fazeli; Mohammadali Sharifian

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 119-140

Abstract
  Attar's use of images and the creation of various and creative images is one of the features that allows his works to be analyzed for common discourse analysis. In his works, Attar has used imagery to express the themes and terms of judgment and philosophy more effectively in creating beauty. The images ...  Read More

Psychology of language
Cognitive Comparison of the Components of Conceptual Metaphor of FEAR between the Blind and the Sighted Individuals of the Linguocultural Geography of Ilam

Elham Sobati

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 141-170

Abstract
  The main purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the metaphorical concepts of fear in the daily speech of sighted and blind adults in the linguocultural geography of Ilam. To this end, research data was gathered from 50 bilingual informants of this area in two subject groups including 25 ...  Read More

Discourse analysis
Reflection of humanist discourse in Fariba Wafi's contemporary novel Another Day of the Council

Ziba Malekzadeh Dilmaghani; Naser Naseri Tazehshahri; Shahryar Hasanzadeh

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 171-191

Abstract
  Humanism" is a philosophical and literary school that is considered to have originated in ancient Greece. This school respects the value and status of man and makes him the measure of everything. The culmination of the manifestation of humanism in the Middle Ages was a new way of confronting the tyranny ...  Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis of the Film "Suteh-Delan"

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, Pages 193-215

Abstract
  Critical analysis as one of the discourse analysis approaches that tries to demystify power relationships and hidden ideologies in it by text denaturalization and review of structures and discourse-oriented components of texts. In the present research, dominant discourse analysis approaches and text ...  Read More