In cognitive approaches, many concepts such as time, quantity, states, changes, actions, causes, purposes and moods are examined and conceived in terms of metaphors. In delineating different aspects of Samā΄, Ahmad-e Jām in his Ons al-tālebīn draws on different conceptual metaphors such as SAMĀ΄ IS FOOD AND DRINKS, SAMĀ΄ IS A HUMAN BEING, and SAMĀ΄ IS HEALTH AND DISEASE. To elaborate on Ahmad-e...

the present paper investigates how far ideologies can be tease out in discourse by examining the employed schemata by two ideologically opposed news media, the bbc and press tv, to report syria crisis during a period of nine months in 2011. by assuming that news is not a valuefree construction of facts and drawing on micro structural approach of schema theory, for the first time in discours...

the purpose of this study was the relationship between problem – solvi ability with fdi cognitive style of students.the research method was correlation method. for data analysis pearson test was used. statistical society in this research was all the students of alligoodarz city in 1391-92 year.to sampling of statiscal population was used sampling multi-stage random the size of sample selected 2...

 The aim of this survey is the recognition of self-metaphors and the qualities of metaphors either positive or negative in the families of schizophrenia patients. The research was contrastive-descriptive in which 20 families schizophrenia patients who were hospitalized in mental hospitals, were compared to 20 families of those who were mentally sound, but were demographically similar to the psy...

abstract recent studies suggest that prelistening activities play an important role in the development of listening comprehension (e.g. long 1990;chiang and dunkel 1992; schmidt-rinehart 1994; jensen and hansen 1995; robinson et al., 1995; buck, 1995; foster and skehan,1996; teng 1996; robinson, 2001; chang and read 2006). in line with previous studies and to shed light on a new aspect of sche...