Obesity is associated with insulin resistance and other major cardiovascular risk factors. A common amino acid polymorphism at codon 972 of the insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) has been shown to interact with obesity in the expression of insulin resistance. The plasma concentration of the adipocyte-specific hormone leptin is increased in obesity and is correlated with adipose tissue mass. B...

Theoretical framework: ŸSociolinguistics (Labov, Chafe, Biber, etc.) ŸConversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, Wooffitt, etc.) ŸIntonational Analysis (Pierrehumbert, Beckman, etc.) Diverse units in spontaneous speech: Ÿspeech act Ÿidea unit Ÿinformation unit Ÿintonation unit, intonational phrase, tone group Ÿprosodic unit, prosodic phrase, prosodic group, prosodic utterance Ÿbreath g...

The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks’s (1977) framework has been adopted and applied to Akbar ...