the present dissertation aims to investigate four-word lexical bundles in applied linguistics research articles by iranian and internationally-published writers. the aims of this study are two-fold: first of all, attempts have been made to create a comprehensive list of the most commonly used four-word lexical bundles categorized by their type and token frequency, their structural characteristi...

  The indissoluble link between literature and art has led to the introduction of literary subjects to Islamic art decoration. Among these themes is the fish that has been of interest to artists of various fields and literature for a long time nowadays due to the deep mystical and symbolic themes. This research, of qualitative and descriptive-analytical type, attempts to extract the mystical co...

The mystical dance is one of the most prominent terms in Sufi literature. This term has its place in the gospel before the mystical literature. Since this term has both lyric texts and mystical literature, Examining its semantic load can be a measure of the worldview of literary creators. In this descriptive-analytic study, the conceptual load of the mystical dance was examined in the Khaghani ...

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Books of Ma‘āref related to education in religious literature, are profound different approaches to Mystical ideas. These books as a literary genre begin with, Ma‘āref of Bahā-e Walad and continues by his spiritual successors. The mystical books’ known as Maâref in Islamic mystical literature had an important role in the history of mystical thought and they had influenced later periods. Among t...

nowadays in trade and economic issues, prediction is proposed as the most important branch of science. existence of effective variables, caused various sectors of the economic and business executives to prefer having mechanisms which can be used in their decisions. in recent years, several advances have led to various challenges in the science of forecasting. economical managers in various fi...

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...