This article focuses on a perceived ideological overlap between popular cultural and judicial treatments of sex and conjugality that contributes to a discursive construction of parenthood and parenting. The author perceives that in both legal and popular cultural texts, there is a sense in which notions of ‘natural’ childhood are discursively constituted as being put at risk by those who reprod...

Discussions of the political effects of the Internet and networked discourse tend to presume consistent patterns of technological adoption and use within a given society. Consistent with this assumption, previous empirical studies of the United States political blogosphere have found evidence that the left and right are relatively symmetric in terms of various forms of linking behavior despite ...

Metaphorical creativity does not constitute a static property of discourse. It is an interactive dynamic process created online. There has been a lack of research concerning online produced metaphorical creativity. This paper intends to account for metaphorical creativity in online talk-in-interaction as a dynamic process that emerges as discourse unfolds. It brings together insights from the e...

Many Arabic scientific debates are devoted to disputes on cancer and its causes. Scientists tend inform people about the danger of consuming being exposed carcinogens. The paper aims explore proximization strategy that Arab scientists rely construct carcinogen risk promote people’s preventive actions against intends answer main question: how does discourse employ ideological conflict risk? It i...

Extremism is a notion, which becomes meaningful in democratic and lawful societies. This is sometimes interchangeable with the terms, Fundamentalism and terrorism. It is often said that one who aims to fight against terrorism, must first challenge and overcome extremism. Thus, Analysis of the potentials of extremism in a society is highly articulated. Whereas Fundamentalism intends to bring abo...

<p>Textbook has an important role in the process of teaching and learning activities. Therefore, this study aims to examine: 1) The Scientific Approach English textbook “<em>Forward</em>”; 2) Communicative Competence “<em>Forward</em>”. method used was a content analysis which it is kind descriptive qualitative research. results indicated that had implemented all s...

The present study was an attempt to examine how questioning was treated by EFL instructors and learners at a private language center in Yasouj, Iran. This study also intended to explore the types of questions posed by the EFL instructors and learners in different course levels and to scrutinize the extent to which the instructors’ classroom behaviors were geared towards enhancing the learners’ ...