Volume 16 (2024)
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)
Word construction
The Study of the Productivity of Noun Maker Derivational Suffixes in Persian Language

Saeed Akabri; Aazanin Amir Arjmandi; Marjan Taheri Oskuei; Mahnaz Karbalaei Sadegh

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 1-22

Abstract
  The present research investigates the productivity of nounmaker derivational suffixes in modern Persian language based on the theoretical framework of Plag(2003). For this purpose, the authors have selected 63 sources existing in the Persian Language databese (PLDB) which included 2/260/868 words and ...  Read More

Discourse analysis
Communicative-Rhetorical Moves in Research Article Introductions: A Genre Analysis within Swales' Model (2004) (A Case Study of 8 Journals of Quran and Hadith Sciences Genre)

Hossein Bazoubandi; Ali Hajikhani

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 23-52

Abstract
  In discourse analysis discipline, the analysis of research articles genre in recent decades has attracted special attention. In the meantime, studying the introduction of a research article, which serves as a roadmap and preview for understanding the next sections of the article, as well as a very important ...  Read More

Linguistics and Khorasan dialects
The Geographical range of the Tati language and its connection with The Parthian language

Jahandoost Sabzalipour

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 53-94

Abstract
  The northwestern branch is one of the important branches of Iranian languages, which has many subcategories. This branch has many speakers in large areas of Iran and outside Iran. Among the sub-branches of that language, we can mention Tati, Talshi, Semnani, etc. In recent decades, a lot of research ...  Read More

Linguistics
Flexibility in Persian Idiomatic Expressions: The case of "Hand-Idioms"

Sasan Maleki; Mohammad Rasekhmahand

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 95-124

Abstract
  Flexibility in idioms may occur at different lexical, morpho-syntactic and syntactic levels. In flexible idioms, the core meaning remains unchanged. This descriptive-analytical study aims to investigate flexibility in Persian Idioms at the above-mentioned levels. The corpus contains 427 examples containing ...  Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis
Examining the specification and concealment of ideology in the narratives of socialist realism

Zohreh Niksiyar; Maryam Dorpar

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 125-160

Abstract
  In various texts, lexical and rhetorical variables play a prominent role in directing the content, and conveying ideology explicitly or implicitly. In the present research, in order to evaluate the level of frankness or concealment of the authors, the function of four stylistic and discourse-orientated ...  Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis
Contradiction and Paradox in the state of lover and beloved

Zahra Amini Shalamzarri; Mohammad Reza Nasr Esfahani; Sayyedeh Rozatian

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 161-196

Abstract
  One of the cases of the use of Contradiction and Paradox in literary works is the description of the lover and the beloved, Because the power of love is beyond what can flow in the normal speech of the language. To describe the concept of love poets and writers go beyond ordinary language to better express ...  Read More

Discourse analysis
A comparative Study of the Image of women in the Poems of Ahmad Shamlou and Hoshang Ebtahaj (with emphasis on social concepts)

Hossein Ial Arefi; Seyed Ali Akbar Shariatifar; Ali Eshghi Sardehi

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 197-222

Abstract
  Literature, especially contemporary poetry, is a reflection of images and social concepts of its era. Although these images are brief or scattered; but with consideration and accuracy and by being together, it conveys the various manifestations of social issues and a deep analysis of society and literary ...  Read More

Phonology
Sonority Sequencing Principle and conspiracy in Persian Syllable structure in Optimality Theory

Masoud Moshayedi; Batool Ainezhad

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 223-250

Abstract
  In the framework of Optimality Theory (OT) proposed by Prince and Smolensky (2004) and by citing some evidence of Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) in Persian, this study aims to investigate conspiracy in this language. SSP is a universal tendency in the order of components within a syllable, whereby ...  Read More