language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting scientific and political knowledge. grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal.this paper focuses on the first type i.e. ideational grammatical metaphor (igm), which includes process types and nominalization.  the m...

quran quds is a valuable text of persian language. in addition to religious benefits, this translation of quran has many linguistic advantages. some of the words of this book are old words which are rarely used in other texts. others are certainly dialectical and are not used in other texts. this article tries to exemplify some of these words which are common get in the dialects of south khoras...

this study explores the effect of online annotations via interactive white boards (iwbs) on reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. to this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on oxford placement test (2014).then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

The Reduplications are made by repeating part of the base. The repeated part does not make sense and will never be used alone and is just popular in spoken language. In recent times, they have been used in some texts of poetry and prose, in particular, in stories written in vernacular. This research, with a historical approach, and with an analytical-explanatory method, examines the information...

This technical report collects three years of experimentation in interactive crosslanguage information retrieval by SICS in the annual Cross-language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) evaluation campaigns 2003, 2004, and 2005. We varied simulated task context and measured user performance in document assessment task to find that choice of language and task context indeed have effects on the amount of eff...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the impact of comparative critical reading strategy on the writing ability of Iranian learners who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL). In order to carry on the study, 60 participants (25 males and 35 females aged between 19 to 27) at intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to two groups; that is, the experi...

recent translation studies have been increasingly focusing on translators as mediators between cultures around the world and have helped us to see how the translator`s identity as a necessarily gendered rewriter impacts their works. this research studied the translation of an indian woman writer`s language and perspectives at lexical level by two iranian woman translators to find the probable e...