gavaznha(deer) and kandu(hive) as two of the pre-revolutionary movies in the history of iranian cinema carry signs of the iranian new wave. since these movies were somehow the social reality of their time, they succeeded in having a different influence on the minds of social actors. on the other hand, developing the screenplay’s characters in these two movies was quite distinct from the routine...

Verbal derogation is not only a linguistic but also, and perhaps more importantly, political phenomenon. In this paper, I argue that to do justice the relevance of derogatory terms, we must neglect social practices structures in which use these terms embedded. aim show inferentialist semantics especially helpful account for embeddedness and, consequently, terms. am concerned with specifying asp...

An analysis of six characters from a Chinese television drama reveals socially meaningful patterns of variation in rhythm and final lengthening. Two measures of rhythm, the syllabic PVI and Varco∆S, reveal the three female characters to be more “stress-timed” than the three male characters; smoothing splines analysis, meanwhile, shows that the women do more lengthening of utterance-final syllab...

Social cognition is meant to examine the process of meaningful social interaction. Despite the central involvement of language in this process, language has not received the focal attention that it deserves. Conceptualizing meaningful social interaction as the process of construction and exchange of meaning, the authors argue that language can be productively construed as a semiotic tool, a too...