One of the distinguishing features of advanced-level L2 learners is that they can “direct their writing to specific audiences, and they demonstrate an ability to alter style, tone, and format according to the specific requirements of the discourse” (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2001, p. 2) and use “language flexibly and effectively for social purposes, including emotio...

this article is going to study of effective sociological factors on production of political narrative literature discourse during sixty and seventy decades. in this order, robert wuthnow & randall collins’s theories are used in total emphasizes on four concepts such as: political reforms of government, crisis in moral order of society, forming interaction chains between writers & resource mobil...

It has been argued that BJP - the current ruling party of India comprises unapologetic hyper nationalists known as Hindu nationalists. also claimed government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi a tight grip over mainstream TV media and non-conformists are finding it increasingly challenging to express their opinion in world’s largest democracy. If such concerns true, then support for nationalis...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

This paper has two main goals. First, it illuminates continuities between the ideas of “true Romanian-ness” as held by both the Romanian cultural elite and the Romanian political regimes in the interwar and communist periods. A manufactured definition of a “true” Romanian—as a Romanian Orthodox Christian, natively Romanian-speaking, and ethnically Romanian—formed the core of Romanian nationalis...

Abstract This article explores American Palestinian women’s discursive strategies and identity politics by which they take control of their marital choices. Through the analysis sixteen in-depth interviews with second-generation women personal observations within community, shows that nationalist religious discourses produced historical contexts respectively stimulated (semi)arranged in-group m...

During the 2010s, both Finland and Sweden made advancements in their parental leave systems by widening right to paid a greater diversity of family constellations investing gender-equal distribution through longer periods reserved for father. However, latter respect, has remained more successful than Finland. This article analyses government political party discourses during 2010s pursuit an ex...

This article critically examines South Korea and China’s COVID-19 tracking apps by bridging surveillance studies with feminist technoscience’s understanding of the “politics care”. Conducting critical readings textual analysis discursive materials, we demonstrate how ideological, relational, material practices strategically deployed “care” to normalize a particular form pandemic technogovernanc...