In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

Aiming at highlighting the important role of print media discourse in the implicit  transfer of  the dominant ideology of discourse context, the present data-driven paper demonstrates  how the lexical features of repetition and synonymy as well as the structural and thematic features of passivization, nominalization and predicated theme were utilized by the discourse producers to mediate betwee...

• Theme 1. Extensive evidence exists for context effects. Regardless of one's theoretical orientation, there can be no doubt that context effects are ubiquitous. When a phenomenon is studied carefully, it typically does not behave the same way across contexts. Regardless of ·, whether the phenomenon is genetic, neural, cognitive, behavioral, social, or cultural, it is likely to exhibit extensiv...

News reports are regarded as a reflection of world reality. People around the watching news to get first aid information about incidents or events they need. Hence, languages in are, course, considered neutral, impartial, and unbiased. Thus, this paper attempts provide critical discourse analysis CDA report its online version taken from Guardian newspaper regarding mass shooting Muslims Christc...

This paper deals with modifications, which are defined as creative changes of idioms’ conventionalized forms for communicative purposes. The focus is on verb phrase (VP) idioms and their structural modifications – deliberate alterations the grammatical structure (which may be accompanied by lexical changes). Idiom analyzed within framework Cognitive Grammar. aim to show that systematic a certai...

This paper examines two case studies of morpheme-specific reduplication that copy from a syntactic domain larger than root but smaller word, providing an analysis in Cophonologies by Phase (CBP) both phonotactic requirements different processes and the amount structure copied reduplication. The first study comes Guébie (Kru, Ivory Coast), where marks nominalization reciprocals (among others). I...

with recently widespread use of mobile phones and sms communication in iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. with this in mind, the p...

in this study, van dijk’s (1998) model of cda was utilized in order to examine the representation of iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by british news casting companies. the analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

Abstract We present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in -ung (e.g., die Evaluierung , ‘the evaluation’) and nominal infinitives das Evaluieren evaluating’). Among many available patterns for German, we selected these because they are both highly productive challenging from semantic point view. Both known to keep tight ...