Word construction
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 ...
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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 have extracted 3907derivative nouns with token frequency of 45779 derivative nouns. The method of the present research is descriptive-analytic and data collecting is corpus base. After the study of collected data of research, the authors have concluded that the quantitative method for measuring the productivity of word formation processes introduced by Plag (2003) is to count the outputs of a word formation process. Also, different methods of measuring the productivity rate of noun maker derivational suffixes offer different results. Analysis of the extracted data from the research corpus shows that among the noun maker derivational suffixes in Persian, (/-i/) has the highest productivity and these suffixes (/-ān/, /-ine/, /-iƷe/, /-un/, /-?orænʤǝn/, /-rænʤǝn/, /-ʃǝn/, /-gāle/) have the lowest productivity.
Discourse analysis
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 ...
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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 criterion for evaluating the whole article, has enjoyed the most genre-based analysis in most academic and specialized disciplines. However, the field of Quran and Hadith sciences is one of the genres that there is no study upon the introduction of its research articles within the genre-based discourse analysis. Therefore, the present article, using a descriptive-analytical method based on the Swales' model (2004) deals with the rhetorical structured and communicative moves in the introduction of 80 research articles published during the year from 1395 to 1399 in prestigious research journals in the field of Quran and Hadith sciences. In fact, this study, within genre analysis focusing on the genre moves of the article introductions has got two main functions: first, how the authors of research articles in the field of the Quran and Hadith sciences introduce their work in the introduction and to what extent do they follow the criteria for writing a good introduction based on a theoretical research model? And the second goal is to what extent in this particular genre, we will see variation in journals of a single field. The results of the present study, which can be both useful for improving the quality of the authors' research article introductions and for evaluating this particular genre by research journals reviewers, indicate that some authors of this genre are not sufficiently aware of the genre structure and rhetorical communicative moves is the article introductions, which has led to a complete lack of compliance with the theoretical model of the research.
Linguistics and Khorasan dialects
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 ...
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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 has been done on Iranian languages and dialects and they are being completed every day. Henning, Yarshater, Lecoq, and Stillo have expressed good opinions about the classification of the North, North-West, and Central Iranian languages. researchers inside Iran have also published useful data about the common language in their regions in recent decades. Yarshater and Stillo have made significant classifications about the Tati family. In this article, while stating those categories, several Tati dialects that are not included in the categories of Yarshater and Stilo will be mentioned. The purpose of this research is to read the texts to identify all the dialects of the Tati language family. The main question of this research is that "the languages of the north, northwest and some of the central languages of Iran are the natural continuations of which of the languages of the ancient period of Iranian languages? The research results show that the Parthian language can be assumed as the ancestor of the Tati languages and Madi can be the ancestor of the Kurdish language. What is in this article is just a hypothesis. Of course, by examining all the species known as "Tati", a more complete opinion and classification can be reached.
Linguistics
Sasan Maleki; Mohammad Rasekhmahand
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 95-124
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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 ...
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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 160 "Hand-Idioms" in Najafi (1387/2008). The findings show that lexical flexibility occurs through the process of addition (nouns, adjectives, adverbs, quantifiers) and substitution (verbs and prepositions); morpho-syntactic flexibility happens through the addition of the plural marker "-ha" and the indefinite marker "–ya", and the syntactic flexibility happens through "postposing", "scrambling", "causative and intransitive structures", "objects substitution" and the addition of the "complements". Furthermore, it was found that Persian "Hand-Idioms" are more inclined towards "addition" and factors such as "definiteness", "information structure", "linguistic economy", "specification" and "expression of quantity" cause the motivation for the flexibility of the idioms. The findings of this research can be used by the writers of the textbooks on teaching Persian idioms to non-Persian speakers and the relevant teachers to provide the learners with appropriate examples to show the features of the flexible idioms.
Critical Discourse Analysis
Zohreh Niksiyar; Maryam Dorpar
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 125-160
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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 ...
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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 variables, "idioms", "vocabularies belonging to specific discourses", "symbolization" and association of meanings" and "narrative allegory" in a number of narratives of Persian socialist realism, written between 1320-1332, have been examined in the framework of critical stylistics. The results show that although all the authors of the works in the question sought to reflect the ruling spirit of the time and legitimize the struggle against domination, but in transferring this ideology to the audience, they have acted in two different ways. Party writers who have been in direct contact with the Tudeh party and have produced their narrative works on the order of this party, Do not have much desire to use the methods of concealing ideology, such as symbolizing and associating meanings, as well as allegory. They mostly use the stylistic alternative of using words belonging to specific discourses to convey the desired ideology naked. This is while critical and independent writers from the Tudeh party, using rhetorical techniques of symbolization and association of meanings as well as allegory, have tried to deepen the text, hide the ideology and implicitly induce it to the audience and the audience is placed not only in contrast to the structural and repressive power ruling the society, but in contrast to the ruling values and their hegemonic domination.
Critical Discourse Analysis
Zahra Amini Shalamzarri; Mohammad Reza Nasr Esfahani; Sayyedeh Rozatian
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 161-196
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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 ...
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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 the state of the lover and the beloved. In this research, an attempt has been made to answer this question by using critical discourse analysis and Fairclough's three-dimensional model, what is the role and position of Contradiction and Paradox in expressing the state of the lover and the beloved The result of the research is that Contradiction and Paradox are evident at all levels of Fairclough's theory. The use of Contradiction and Paradox to express the state of the lover is more than the beloved. The gender difference makes the poet use different methods of contradiction and paradox to describe the lover and the beloved. The male sex has more power than the female, and the poet uses a more obvious contrast, But because revealing the issues of love for the female gender is against the custom, he uses contrast.
Discourse analysis
Hossein Ial Arefi; Seyed Ali Akbar Shariatifar; Ali Eshghi Sardehi
Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, Pages 197-222
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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 ...
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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 works to the reader. This article tries to provide the basis for a better understanding of the reflected image of women in the works of these two contemporary poets, while comparing the image of women in the poems of Ahmad Shamlou and Hushang Ebtehaj, using a descriptive - analytical method and collecting poetic documents. The aim of emphasizing on social concepts is in response to the main issue of what effect social changes and transformations have on poets' mind and consciousness to describe various phenomena, including women. As in the poems of Shamlou and Hushang Ebtehaj, their descriptions of women have emerged and appeared unique due to social concepts such as freedom, anti-oppression and love of humankind. The results of the research show that Shamlou was more comprehensive than Ebtehaj in his descriptions of women under the influence of social concepts.
Phonology
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 ...
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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 the sonority scale in the sequence of components in onset is ascending but in coda it is descending. In some cases, to achieve this principle, some different phonological processes conspire. In OT, conspiracy indicates the functional unity of several different phonological processes that pursue the same structural goal. In this descriptive-analytic study which is based on both library and field research, 204 CVCC words violating SSP have been studied. The analysis of the data firstly illustrates that derivative rules cannot show the functional unity of different phonological processes, then in the framework of OT and by depicting optimality tableaus, it is shown how some different phonological processes in Persian (such as deletion, insertion and metathesis), although leading to different outcomes, conspire to achieve one common goal i.e. SSP. Moreover, it is confirmed that SSP is not solely limited to syllables containing long vowels, but it applies to many syllables including short vowels as well.
