Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

This paper, while focused primarily on the narrative transformation of Sadeq Chubak’s Tangsir from novel to film adaptation, offers a general survey of adaptation history in Iran and also investigates the nature of Iranian adaptation from both foreign and domestic sources. Drawing on Gerard Genette’s theories of Narratology, especially his notion of hypertextuality, transpragma...

Although theory and research on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioners have grown recently, there is little documented their emotions identities. This study explored the emotion of 12 Iranian EAP role in identity construction. Adopting a narrative inquiry methodology, examined practitioners’ across Zembylas’s (2002) three-dimensional framework teacher Data analyses revealed that whil...

BACKGROUND Hand Eczema (HE) is a dermatological disorder with frequent relapses and multiple causes such as atopic, allergic and irritant contact dermatitis. The management is complex because of the wide range of different pathogenesis. Efficacy of some of available treatments is not well established and it can affect patients' quality of life significantly. METHODS Reports on HE such as diag...

BACKGROUND Toxoplasmosis is a common parasitic disease. There is likelihood of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in blood donors during the periods of life. Currently, laboratory screening of blood donors for T. gondii is not routinely available. The objectives of this review were to study the effects of T. gondii on blood safety and to approach for risk reduction in blood recipients. METHODS A l...

The Iranian film represented by White Balloon includes a series of elements such as colonialism, class, race, sex and gender in the third cinema. Religious culture makes films not only contain humanitarian concerns, but also become representative ideology. description women’s survival dilemma displacement Hazara reflects complexity social environment. Under strict censorship, directors cast the...

In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

the historical awareness of iranian intellectuals reached its peak by the constitutional revolution and began a new trend of life. the literary genre was one of the fields on which such a matter was reflected. the intellectual contemplations have significant meaningful alignment with the principles outlined in contemporary fiction, and they can make the mutual interactions and relationships cle...

iii realism – a predilection towards “playing by ear” and keeping options open with and ability to juggle options and keep them all in the air. Many of these traits are popularly associated with the stereotype of the bazaar merchant (bazaari). On the other hand, the popular bazaari stereotype is replete with negative characteristics. He is seen as a wheeler-dealer, one capable of selling ice to...