Analysis of speech acts and discourse structures is essential to a dialogue understanding system because speech acts and discourse structures are closely tied with the speaker’s intention. However, it has been difficult to infer a speech act and a discourse structure from a surface utterance because they highly depend on the context of the utterance. We propose a statistical dialogue analysis m...

this study aims at ascertaining a framework that would account for the persian data. we scrutinize all data occurring in the selected corpus, and describe how they usually work on the basis of the two following variables: power and intimacy. according to our investigation, the use of terms of address in persian is affected by age, sex, occupation, ideology, political and social position of the ...

investigating the discursive construction of efl learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. this study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) iranian efl learners’ motivation in shiraz university, iran by examining t...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. the study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? and if yes, can it be ana...