Mohammad Alipour

Department of English Language Teaching, College of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

[ 1 ] - English and Persian Sport Newspaper Headlines: A comparative study of linguistic means

Abstract Using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. The present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the English and Persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 English and 400 Persian headlines published during 12th of June to 13th of July, 2014 was c...

[ 2 ] - A Comparative Study of English and Persian Advertising Slogans: Linguistic Means through the Sands of Time

This study was a contrastive analysis of the evolution of English and Persian advertising slogans to investigate their similarities/differences in using rhetorical figures, and the evolution in the use of these figures in the slogans of each language. Thus, 800 Persian and English slogans from the last four decades were collected. Lapsanka's framework (2006) including different aspects with som...

[ 3 ] - English and Persian Sport Newspaper Headlines: A comparative study of linguistic means

Abstract Using rhetorical figures in specialized languages like the language of newspaper headlines is common. The present study attempted to conduct a contrastive analysis of the English and Persian sport newspaper headlines related to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Toward this end, a corpus consisting of 400 English and 400 Persian headlines published during 12th of June to 13th of July, 2014 was c...

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