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    Review of Marzieh Sadeghpour & Farzad Sharifian: Cultural linguistics and world Englishes (review)
    Intercultural Pragmatics 21 (1): 129-135. 2024.
    This book, written by Dr. Sadeghpour and the late Prof. Sharifian, field-defining scholars in Cultural Linguistics, consists of an overview and 16 chapters. It commences with an overview by the editors and the following chapters bring together an amalgam of 16 seminal studies, mostly Englishes in Asian countries by highly noted scholars; the book deals with the inspection of cultural conceptualizations underlying different varieties of English from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics plus an…Read more
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    The question of establishing, maintaining, defending, and attacking political and ethical legitimacy extends beyond the focus on conspiracy theories. It necessitates an interdisciplinary methodology that combines Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) with sociological, psychological, historical, and epistemological approaches (see Kazemian and Hashemi, 2017). This particular volume offers a compelling perspective on the outlines of such a research program; it aims to identify and present several esse…Read more
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    Review of the Book: Challenges in Language Testing around the World: Insights for language test users. (review)
    with Bahram Kazemian and Shafigeh Mohammadian
    Journal of Educational Measurement 59 12-20. 2022.
    Structurally, the book is comprised of 35 chapters plus an overview (chapter 1) and an epilogue (part VI, chapter 37) by the editors each of which has its own outstanding merit and objectives. The book consists of two types of chapters: experience-based and data-based. The former chapters are listed together first in each part of the volume and are based on the authors’ direct consideration and observations of challenges in language testing, including narrations, reflections, and analyses about …Read more
  •  15
    Jie Zhang: Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games
    with Bahram Kazemian and Bing Zhang
    Language Policy 21 12-16. 2022.
    Drawing from an expansive perspective of LPP delineated by Shohamy (2006), this volume dissects LPP in manifold aspects: it commences with an illuminating and detailed account of both LP and Language Services (LSs) provided for the MOGs; it inquires into the impacts of language notions and outlooks on Beijing residents whose lives were influenced by MOGs; it deals with a particularized probe into English language textbooks related to the MOGs, and it spells out how the MOGs converted the lingui…Read more
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    Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Tropes in Donald Trump’s First Speech to the UN
    Theory and Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) 11 (10): 1224-1236. 2021.
    Language and politics go hand in hand and learning and comprehending political genre is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting political discourse in any text/talk. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Fairclough’s CDA and Rhetoric, the current study aims at investigating Donald Trump’s First Speech, from the point of frequency and functions of some rhetorical strategies (Parallelism, Anaphora and the Power of Three, Antithesis and Expletive, etc.), Nominaliza…Read more
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    In the light of Halliday's Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis, the major objectives of this study are to investigate and analyze Barack Obama's 2012 five speeches, which amount to 19383 words, from the point of frequency and functions of Nominalization, Rhetorical strategies, Passivization and Modality, in which we can grasp the effective and dominant principles and tropes utilized in political discourse. Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis frameworks …Read more
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    A DIALOGICAL NATURE OF STRUCTURE IN KEATS’S ODES AS A CIRCULAR ESCAPE FROM PAIN TO PLEASURE: A BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVE
    International Journal of Linguistics and Literature (IJLL) 2 (3): 63-74. 2014.
    Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this thesis investigates the manifestations of dialogic voice in Odes by John Keats. In fact, this study attempts to examine the dialogic reading of “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on Grecian urn”, “Ode on Indolence”, “Ode to Psyche”, “To Autumn” and “Ode to Melancholy”, through structural viewpoints. A scrutiny upon Keats's odes through dialogical perspective may reveal that Keats is a social and an involved poet of his …Read more
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    NOMINALIZATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL GENRES: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS PERSPECTIVE
    International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS) 2 (3): 211-228. 2014.
    Language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and conveying scientific and political knowledge. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal. This article focuses on the first type of grammatical metaphor, i.e. the ideational one, which includes process types and nominalization. The principal objective of the current work is to analyze a corpus comprising 10 scientific and 10 poli…Read more
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    Ideational grammatical metaphor in scientific texts: a Hallidayan perspective
    International Journal of Linguistics 4 (4): 146-168. 2013.
    Scientific Texts are generally concentrated on highly technical terms, and they are troublesome to understand due to their complexity in forms and meanings. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal. This paper focuses on the first type i.e. Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, which includes process types and nominalization. This paper adopts Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar to pinpoint and analyze nominalization and the role played by it. With a corpu…Read more
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    Languages have their most natural ways of encoding the meanings which they express. This is called congruent way, and the non-congruent ways of encoding language are referred to as grammatical metaphor (GM). According to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), GM is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal. This book focuses on the first type of GM, i.e. the ideational one, which includes process types and nominalization. Nominalization is acknowledged to be a powerful linguisti…Read more
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    Islamification vs. Islamophobia: A Message to the Youth in the Occident: Critical & Rhetorical Inquiries
    Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12 (5): 786-799. 2021.
    Drawing upon the recent theoretical framework of Burkean concept of identification (ID), the current study aims at probing the interaction of content and form in two letters penned by Iran’s Supreme Leader and addressed to the Youth on Jan. and Nov. 2015. To this end, the study seeks (i) to determine a role ID takes in the conveyance of intended assumptions to the targeted readers; and (ii) to observe if the writer’s objectives, i.e. to identify himself with the readers and to realize his politi…Read more
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    Review (review)
    Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 12 (1). 2016.