The present study has been designed to investigate the exclusive and inclusive uses of deixis ‘ma’ in artistic and scientific texts. It intends to indicate the communicative role of this pronoun, i.e., the way in which it is applied by authors to communicate with their readers. The analysis is based on qualitative and quantitative perspectives by using a Persian monolingual corpus. In the prese...

since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...

This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

Stemmers are softwares that find syntactic` roots of the words. They play an important role in natural language processing and other fields such as information retrieval (IR). In IR using stemmed words instead of the original words, could increase as much as 15 percent to the overall performance. In this paper, we report on the development of the first Persian stemmer (Bon). Bon is tested on a ...

The purpose of this article is to examine the status of a well known argument for a positive rate of steady state inflation. The original argument, by Vickrey (1954) and Phelps (1972), suggests that the economy is more able to dampen shocks, such as fluctuations in the real rate of return on risky capital investment, when inflation rates are positive. The notion is that the conditions required ...

Nowadays, many daily human activities such as education, trade, talks, etc are done by using the Internet. In such things as registration on Internet web sites, hackers write programs to make automatic false registration that waste the resources of the web sites while it may also stop it from functioning. Therefore, human users should be distinguished from computer programs. To this end, this p...

Although widely-studied in recent years, Language Identification (LID) systems for determining the language of input texts often fail to discriminate between similar languages like Croatian-Serbian and Malay-Indonesian. This has brought attention to the task of discriminating similar languages, varieties and dialects – including a recent shared task [3]. Persian (also known as Farsi) and Dari (...

ever since alexander emerged in the history of iran, his being greek or iranian has been a matter of dispute. the subject has later entered the discussions over alexander’s identity as ruler, governor, explorer, adventurer, etc. even these days disputes over his existence or his territory exist. a purely historical study on the subject should be based on documents. yet since a great part of wri...