This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 BA and MA Persian students and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. Selection of request s...

The short stories “En la espesura de noche” (2010) and “Una camarera (expatriada a cualquier lugar del mundo)” (2011) depict the feeling of imprisonment that first-person narrators experience within rigid borders Equatorial Guinea Cuba, respectively, how they overcome this territorial oppression by loving woman who dwells beyond national are unable to trespass. Bearing in mind love towards nati...

Several studies exploring the sociology of news have identified and established a range factors that influence journalism shape media narratives. However, little has been known regarding narrative construction in English language broadcast India. Therefore, this study investigated relationship between (re)emerging right-wing nationalism television A qualitative thematic discourse analysis was c...

This article calls for an investigation of the way media and information literacy (MIL) projects construct (de)legitimize particular forms political subjectivity. The authors argue that field critical discourse studies (CDS) offers useful approaches to develop this line inquiry. They demonstrate point in a case study MIL project European Association Viewers Interests (EAVI). work with concept u...

The main aim of this research is to understand the genesis and nature an anti-consumption movement in India its emphasis on nationalism through localism. This adopted a case study design, including in-depth interviews discursive analysis. Through historical analysis shows influence anarchist political philosophy contemporary movement. It demonstrates that inflected with discourses freedom, anti...

This article considers nineteenth-century riverscapes of the Hudson in relation to formation American identity. It argues that United States contributed welding a national identity Christian one, although officially identities were distinct. I examine role River School creation ‘wilderness’ as an image homeland, and how this construct incorporated iconic figure Euro-American ‘pilgrim-pioneer.’ ...