Research Paper
Discourse Analysis
Malahat Shabani Minaabad; shabnam Alimohammadi
Abstract
Graffiti is a type of vandalism and a kind of social abnormality which among its main manifestations are writing and engraving on the walls of schools, universities and public institutions. The objective of this research is to study the content of bench-writings and graffiti at secondary schools and ...
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Graffiti is a type of vandalism and a kind of social abnormality which among its main manifestations are writing and engraving on the walls of schools, universities and public institutions. The objective of this research is to study the content of bench-writings and graffiti at secondary schools and universities of Ardabil city, taking into account the variables of sex, age and education based on Durkheim’s (1995) theory of abnormal behavior. The data were analyzed for the concepts such as love, life, names, time, pictures and education. The present research is a descriptive-correlational study. The results of statistical analysis indicated that there is a significant difference in the content of bench-writing and graffiti of high schools and universities in the city of Ardabil from sociolinguistic point of view. The results of the research indicate that there is a significant relationship between sex, age, education and content of graffiti in high schools. However, there is no significant difference in a variety of themes related to love and different types of life themes depicted on graffiti and bench-writings of schools and universities.
Research Paper
Language and Culture
ali abdolahinejad; Ali Izanloo; Azam Estaji
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Based on the assumption that various usage of words are motivated, the present sociolinguistic research has compiled and analyzed expressions containing the word flesh in Bijan-khan corpus and 18 different dictionaries and books of Persian idioms and proverbs, and by analyzing different meanings of flesh, ...
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Based on the assumption that various usage of words are motivated, the present sociolinguistic research has compiled and analyzed expressions containing the word flesh in Bijan-khan corpus and 18 different dictionaries and books of Persian idioms and proverbs, and by analyzing different meanings of flesh, the study has attempted to elicit and categorize meaning-triggers of its different usages. Accordingly, at first 28 different usage of the word flesh were identified, including muscle, precious thing, volume, nerve, halal, wound, and so on. Then, the total semantic triggers of these applications were categorized in seven categories of quantity, quality, interaction, form, place, ownership and value. The findings of this study show that the span of meaning-triggers of this concept is limited to the environmental, social, historical, and cultural constraints of the language community. This finding is in line with the results of previous research, and altogether is a clue to the general pattern of conceptualization of the linguistic system.
Research Paper
Language and Culture
shahrzad bahmani; ayoob moradi; aliasghar bovandshahryari
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Linguistic analysis is part of discourse analysis methods to identify linguistic features that are described at the micro level. The purpose of the present study is to decode the formal and linguistic characteristics of mythological discourse of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh based on Faircloug’s theoretical ...
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Linguistic analysis is part of discourse analysis methods to identify linguistic features that are described at the micro level. The purpose of the present study is to decode the formal and linguistic characteristics of mythological discourse of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh based on Faircloug’s theoretical framework. According to linguistic studies, the organization of vocabulary in the interaction with the speaker's knowledge is presented in three intermittent periods: the role of language on the structure of the discourse-producing worldview of ideology and the role of the first man, the expressive values of vocabulary, and the social relations of the identities of the text, and the coherent design to the formation of discourse and stories. On the basis of lexical variables, the third period is in the highest number of types of semantic relations in the center of the repetition of the ideological mythology. The grammatical features in the tables show the role of the thinkers, the interlocutors, and the expression of language in the selection of the names of characters and the formation of the epic genre of discourse. The qoutying styles of indirect quotation in reporting information shows the source of the speaker's authority and the social constructivism of the text in interacting with the racial basis. Also, pronoun references are the most coherent factor in linguistic transcription in the production of statements with the reference of old identities (known).
Research Paper
Language & Media
Hossein Kermani
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This article examines how users' narratives are formed and analyzed in Persian Twitter during the earthquake of Kermanshah in 2017. In addition, the prevalent narratives on Persian Twitter will also be identified in this event to determine which users' stories have been hegemonic on this social media. ...
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This article examines how users' narratives are formed and analyzed in Persian Twitter during the earthquake of Kermanshah in 2017. In addition, the prevalent narratives on Persian Twitter will also be identified in this event to determine which users' stories have been hegemonic on this social media. Given that the narratives formed on Twitter are still a new topic for scholars to research, a plausible theoretical framework cannot be found. For this reason, by first reviewing the views on narratives on Twitter, mainly the structuralist model of Luff and Waltzsky (Ochs and Capps' discussion of narrative qualities and narrative approach) is attempted to provide a good theoretical background for the analysis. Also, using the online platform Discovery Text, 23,964 tweets were collected in the first 24 hours after the Kermanshah earthquake in 2017. Then, 15% of the collected tweets were randomly selected and analyzed relying on the critical analysis method of social media discourse. The results showed that there were three types of narration on Twitter: single narratives, reference narratives, and associative narratives. Each of these narratives is discussed in detail in the paper. The results also showed that the reference narratives and the dominant associative narratives are often critical and political.
Research Paper
Language & Media
Mahnaz Talebi Dastenaee; Mandana Nourbakhsh; Hamideh Poshtvan
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In recent years, numerous studies have been done on the impact of different speech styles on the changes of prosodic elements. Sociophonetics examines the combination of techniques, elements, and theoretical frameworks in phonology and sociology. The present study, within the framework of sociophonetics ...
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In recent years, numerous studies have been done on the impact of different speech styles on the changes of prosodic elements. Sociophonetics examines the combination of techniques, elements, and theoretical frameworks in phonology and sociology. The present study, within the framework of sociophonetics studies, examines the effect of context on the fundamental frequency, intensity and duration of identical word pairs and paragraphs in two different religious and nonreligious contexts using PRAAT software version 5.4.17. For this purpose, ten female participants with an average age of 29 years were asked to read 8 paragraphs (4 paragraphs with religious context and 4 paragraphs with non-religious context).Each paragraph contains one of the target research names (Fatemeh, Mohammad, Abbas, and Hossein). The purpose is to study the difference between the average fundamental frequency (Hz), duration (ms), and intensity (dB) in the same words but in both religious and non-religious contexts. The results show that the difference between the duration of identical word pairs in the two religious and non-religious contexts is statistically significant, meaning that the duration of the words in the religious context was longer.
Research Paper
Language Contact and Conflict
javid Fereidoni; Nafiseh Tadayyon Chahartagh
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Code switching, as an outcome of linguistic contact, can be seen in most of the multilingual societies, including Urmia, the capital city of West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The present field study aimed to compare the frequency, direction (from Turkish to Persian or vice versa), and categorical levels ...
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Code switching, as an outcome of linguistic contact, can be seen in most of the multilingual societies, including Urmia, the capital city of West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The present field study aimed to compare the frequency, direction (from Turkish to Persian or vice versa), and categorical levels (affix, word, phrase, or sentence) of code switching among female elementary and high-school students representing high, middle, and low social classes. In order to do this, the required data were extracted from the casual conversations of the students which were collected using a non-participant observation method through voice recording in public places. According to the findings, code switching was more frequent among high-school students representing the middle social class. Besides, according to the results, words were the most frequent, and affixes were the rarest code-switched elements in the data. Moreover, most of the students switched the code when their mother language was the dominant language of the conversation. Also, high-school students favored code-switching at word level, compared to the elementary students who switched sentences most.
Research Paper
Language & Media
Ameneh Masnabadi; Behzad Rahbar; mohammad reza oroji
Abstract
Studying prison language and its common words and expressions is of significance from sociological, psychological, linguistic and criminological points of view. In the present research, we aim to investigate the morphological aspect of language of prison and analyze the most important word-creation processes ...
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Studying prison language and its common words and expressions is of significance from sociological, psychological, linguistic and criminological points of view. In the present research, we aim to investigate the morphological aspect of language of prison and analyze the most important word-creation processes in this language based on Booij’s (2007) differentiation between word-formation and word-creation processes. The data collection methods were objective observation and interviews with the prisoners. The data consisted of 615 terms common in male prisoners’ language and 496 terms common in female prisoners’ language (1111 in total), a total of 167 of which are results of word creation processes. The total number of interviewed prisoners was 70, 20 of whom were female from a prison in Rey, Iran, and 50 male prisoners from the Rajaei Shahr, Ghezel Hesar, Fashafuyeh, and Great Tehran prisons. The research findings suggested eight word creation processes in prison language: (1) metaphorical extension, (2) coinage, (3) reduplication, (4) shortening, (5) lexical borrowing, (6) clipping, (7) blending, and (8) abbreviation. After assessing the relationship between the application of these processes and the gender variable, it was found that there was a significant relationship between the two, and the gender factor affects the use of these processes among male and female prisoners.
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