this paper closely examines the persian new year's opening prayer as a literary text. regarding different communicative models, including the jacobson model, it shows that these models have never considered a place for religious communicative discourse. this paper endeavors to be a threshold for religious discourse, especially prayers. in doing so, it, first of all deals with the backgroun...

The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of Iran. In this paper I examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poem “This Autumn in ...

While 3D space has become almost ubiquitous in computer games that apply narrative techniques, theoretical frameworks and practical experiments about the use of virtual space are underdeveloped compared to the number of works that deal with literary textual pieces such as MUDs. Offering one element to fill this gap, the notion of a Story Map is introduced in this paper. The interactor’s experie...

Focusing on the paradox between innocence and responsibility generated by the term childsoldiers, which is treated differently in literary and cinematographic works from the North and the South, this article uses postcolonial theory in order to deconstruct ‘the single story’ that may be erasing these children’s many stories. Accordingly, the analysis brings to the fore both the supposed univers...

The present paper aimed at highlighting the judicious incorporation of literary genres (i.e. novel, short story/fiction, drama, and poetry) as a supposedly inspiring teaching technique and an allegedly potent learning resource into ESL/EFL curricula. The rationale behind this pedagogical inclusion is to promote both teaching and learning effectiveness through capitalizing intensively on the gen...

The present paper aimed at highlighting the judicious incorporation of literary genres (i.e. novel, short story/fiction, drama, and poetry) as a supposedly inspiring teaching technique and an allegedly potent learning resource into ESL/EFL curricula. The rationale behind this pedagogical inclusion is to promote both teaching and learning effectiveness through capitalizing intensively on the gen...

<p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-AU">This study aims to uncover how Luke Combs uses linguistic devices in the lyrics of "Six Feet Apart" take stance on COVID-19 pandemic. A thorough data's content was done within constraints "Appraisal" analytical methodology. The results show that positive values are preferred over negative ones. data recorded under "affect," which totaled 42 and...