as one of the most fundamental discourses of islamic humanism and islamic education system, inner nature (fiṭra) has always been of interest to muslim thinkers, philosophers, and educators. nevertheless, given the difference of the perspective and position that each thinker has adopted, various, and to some extent, different interpretations of fiṭra have been presented; therefore, the definitio...

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...

‘Environmental citizenship’ is, like other forms of ‘adjectival citizenship’, a recent invention. The environmental citizen’s life may be rather different from that of the ‘average’ citizen. For example, she will ‘turn off the tap when brushing [her] teeth or washing her face’; ‘walk, ride [her] bike, carpool or use public transport when possible’; ‘shop at second-hand stores and garage sales ....

This study aims to find out how the discourse of 19th century women in Little Women movie. The analytical method is using critical analysis Norman Fairclough's model with three dimensional models, dimensions text, practice and socio-cultural practice. results show that emerging feminist liberal feminism. text dimension shows Jo March not wanting get married, struggling alone, being able be empo...

Over the last 30 years, Silvana Patriarca, a professor of Contemporary History at Fordham University, New York, has deeply and consistently investigated construction Italian national narrative: its ‘long term’ genealogy, characteristics, tensions. Her first book, Numbers Nationhood (Patriarca 1996), focused on co-production statistical knowledge image Italy during Restoration Risorgimento, rere...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

    A review of previous research on receptive skills among EFL learners  reveals that in contrast  to extensive research in reading, fewer studies have focused on the process  of listening comprehension in EFL contexts. The current study examines the effects of discourse signaling cues on Iranian EFL students' listening comprehension in academic lectures and also investigates the effect of tea...

this study tries to show that how viewpoint functions in discourse. as it will be clarified, it is highly related to the intention of the speaker/writer, and as a result, the orientation (s)he adopts in the discourse. deictic markers function as discourse markers to fix and anchor time, place, agent, and other discursive elements. in this way, the viewpoint adopted by the enunciator/utterer is ...

Abstract This paper uses Durkheim’s distinction between cause and function to explore the aims implications of Forrester’s critique liberal egalitarianism in In Shadow Justice . I suggest that there is an interesting tension argument portrayal Rawlsian justice theory as a vestigial institution—a ‘survival’—left over from 1950s liberalism, its continuing presence political doctrine has strong po...