Accusatory Based Discourse Strategies: Apologia, Kategoria and Strategic Image Repair Discourse

Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation

Conversational Repairs in Persian Dramatic Discourse: Akbar Radi's Pellekân (The Steps)

The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks’s (1977) framework has been adopted and applied to Akbar ...

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

A Study of Ideological Strategies of Shahnameh in Production of Iranian Superiority Discourse: A Case Study of “The Story of Rostam and Chengesh”

Shahnameh of Ferdowsi has been continuously studied by numerous researchers and scholars from literary, mythological and cultural aspects. One of the rarely and less noticed issues in this regard is investigating the ideological role and function of language in this piece of literature based on a certain adopted theory and method. In other words, the writers of this article try to understand ho...

A model of trust-repair discourse

This article proposes a novel theoretical framework for examining trust-repair discourse. The model identifies two fundamental discourse strategies available to the trust-breaker when trust is at stake (i) to engage with and act upon the discourses that represent a potential source of distrust – neutralize the negative, (ii) to communicate a trustworthy discourse identity – emphasize the positi...