This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

Contemporary literary traumatheory indicates that experiencing trauma creates a fear that destroys identity. In fact, experiencing trauma creates a new identity for the victim. The representation of the trauma and the formation of the new identity for the victim are the building blocks of trauma novels. Due to the nature of trauma, it seems impossible to fully describe traumatic experiences by ...

The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...

The present study examined the influence of expression configuration on cross-identity expression aftereffect. The expression configuration refers to the spatial arrangement of facial features in a face for conveying an emotion, e.g., an open-mouth smile vs. a closed-mouth smile. In the first of two experiments, the expression aftereffect is measured using a cross-identity/cross-expression conf...

research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. the thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of ghana with the introduction of the use of english among ghanaians. the coexistence of both ghanaian languages and engli...