Every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. Given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. In this study a comparis...

The study aimed to find out the women's representation of Sima Bahous' speech entitled "Looking Forward a Future Gender Equality" by applying Mills' discourse analysis perspective, such as subject-object position, reader and writer-reader position. presence UN Women organization is new step source hope for women fighting gender equality empowerment. Bahous, woman behind Women, contributed impro...

the aim of this article is to analyze representation of women in contemporary iranian painting. as the approach of cultural studies shows, a representation is never a pure reflection of reality; rather, it portrays reality in a specific way in order to reproduce the dominant hidden discourse. therefore, this research aims to decode women’s portrayals in order to discover the hidden ideology in ...

This study tries to critically unravel the way Islam is represented in western discourse through establishing the relationship between language and ideology, the forms it takes and its potential effect. To that end, headlines from widely circulated print media of the west including the Independent, the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, and The Times from January 1, 2008 to December 30, 2012 w...

television viewing (tv) is associated with an in-creased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular dis-eases, and all-cause mortality (1). in particular, ex-cessive tv viewing was found to be more preva-lent among older adults aged over 55 years than among younger age groups (2). moreover, it has been emphasized the importance of identifying at-risk populations with excessive tv viewing time and ...