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Number of Articles: 12
Editorial
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 0-0
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Read MoreBackward Pragmatic Transfer: The Case of Refusals in Persian
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 1-24
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The purpose of this study was to examine Cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from L2 [English] to L1 [Persian]) in refusals to invitations. It explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in L1 regarding the status ... Read MoreThe Use of Second-Person Reference in Advertisement Translation with Reference to Translation between Chinese and English
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 25-36
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This research aimed to review the use of second-person reference in advertisement translation, work out the general rules, and provide guidance to translators. Using second-person reference is common in the advertising discourse. Addressing audiences directly involves their attention and in this way ... Read MoreReverse Addressing in Modern Persian
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 37-52
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Reverse addressing is an interesting realization of kinship terms in interactive, face to face communication. This descriptive study was proposed to examine the use of family address pronouns in Iran as a function of the classical sociological parameters of age, sex, and social distance. It investigated ... Read MoreBeyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Culture and Identity in a Glocal Society
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 53-62
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As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious ... Read MoreA Socio-Cultural Study of Language Teacher Status
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 63-72
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The present study pursued two goals: First, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher Status Scale (TSS); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of Persian, Arabic, and English in Iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, ... Read MoreI am not Prejudiced, or am I? Semantic Strategies Used by Ghanaian University Students in the Discourse of Ethnic Prejudice
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 73-87
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Semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. Here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a ... Read MoreDemotivating and Remotivating Factors among MA Students of TEFL: An Iranian Case
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 88-105
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The present study sought to investigate demotivating and remotivating factors among Iranian MA students of TEFL. The participants included 170 male and female (Male= 97, Female= 73) Iranian MA students of TEFL randomly chosen among the students of 10 most well-known state universities of Iran. To collect ... Read MoreAn Analysis of Metaphoric Use of Names of Body Parts in the Bantu Language Kifipa
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 106-118
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This paper focused on the way names of body parts are artistically used to convey meanings and messages in Kifipa, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Since the body parts metaphors are used by people to portray meanings in their daily conversations (Kovecses, 2004; Vierke, 2012), the paper investigated ... Read MoreAn Investigation of the Linguistic, Paralinguistic and Sociocultural Effects of Input on the Perception and Translation of Gerunds by Persian Speakers of English
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 119-130
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In this study, it was intended to investigate the Persian native speakers’ perception of gerunds by three different elicitation techniques i.e., written, audio, and pictorial through translation. Eighty intermediate learners of English were asked to select Persian translation of the gerund formsin ... Read MoreReflections by Robert Phillipson on English in Post-Revolutionary Iran. From Indigenization to Internationalization, M. Borjian (2013) Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1847699091
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2014, Pages 131-137