Introduction: Hospitalization of patients in the critical care units greatly affects their families and their balance. Attention to family needs can affect the treatment process. Identifying the needs of patients’ families and the extent to which they can be fulfilled can affect the treatment process. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of family needs o...

this study aims at ascertaining a framework that would account for the persian data. we scrutinize all data occurring in the selected corpus, and describe how they usually work on the basis of the two following variables: power and intimacy. according to our investigation, the use of terms of address in persian is affected by age, sex, occupation, ideology, political and social position of the ...

investigating the discursive construction of efl learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. this study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) iranian efl learners’ motivation in shiraz university, iran by examining t...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. the study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? and if yes, can it be ana...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

critical discourse analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. this study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced elt textbooks. the findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. regarding social relations, friend was ...

conclusions development of the job and task analysis to ensure providing the right training needs, applying more evidences through different studies for reforms, more decentralized equipped system with decision-making tools have been proposed for development. results the results showed the specific method of student selection and clear objectives and standards of training related to the health ...

Major waterborne (enteric) pathogens are relatively well understood and treatment controls are effective when well managed. However, water-based, saprozoic pathogens that grow within engineered water systems (primarily within biofilms/sediments) cannot be controlled by water treatment alone prior to entry into water distribution and other engineered water systems. Growth within biofilms or as i...