In today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. Mean while, Mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among Islamic cities of Iran In recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central part of...

The rich identity, originality and validity of the “Ancient Iranian Urbanism and Architecture”, always have been stimulating the urban designers and planners to have research about their valuable qualities and historical principles. Unlike the past, today’s Iranian cities have inefficient urban qualities; because they are inspired by the western urban designs, without paying attention to their ...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...

the present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and iranian local research article discussion sections. the study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of language testing, english languag...

Within the framework of governmentality idea, territorial identity consists a group symbols and procedures that are expressed in particular period history given precedence over other symbols. According to this perspective, national is not just natural phenomenon but rather something political establishment builds time stabilizes as communal memory, with possibility it will be rebuilt future. Th...

Introduction: Iran has hosted foreign immigrants, mostly Afghans and Iraqis, for the past four decades. The number of Afghan refugees registered by UN Refugee Agency in 2021, shows that among different countries, is second destination after Pakistan. One key aspects immigrants' lives changes context life residence host community identity. Identity an important element process immigrant integrat...

cultural world is a network of presuppositions which is intuitively present behind the consciousness of iranian thinkers like an indisputable, unanalyzable, general background. this network of constructive rules forms the modern iranian political discourses which are studied in this paper in terms of progressivist, identity-seeking, and contemporary political discourses. each of the above polit...

This study focuses on the processes & relationships between foreign language learner's identity and interaction proficiency associated with learning English in private institutes Iranian context, especially, participants' beliefs about languages views question are analyzed. analysis integrates speaker's practices to issues of construction negotiation that observable two contexts. Some as a ...