The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

This study aimed to investigate translators‟ approach in dealing with culture-specific items (CSI) in translation of fantasy fiction for children. For this purpose, the culture-specific items in Persian translations of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien‟s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as well as Lewis‟s The Chronicles of Narnia were taken into consideration. Since children have limited amount of ...

In an article in the Scottish cultural magazine, The Drouth, Mark Cousins provocatively bemoaned the lack of a vibrant film culture in Scotland. Putting Iran's cinematic achievements forward as a – perhaps surprising – example, Cousins identifies several reasons for Scotland's underdevelopment, most of which revolve around a lack of experimentation and a general absence of interest in exploring...

le premier contact des iraniens avec le théâtre occidental eut lieu lors du contact des savants avec la poétique d’aristote. au milieu du xixe siècle, grâce aux voyages des rois ghajar en france, se développent les rapports culturels et littéraires entre les deux pays et la première salle de théâtre à l’occidentale fut bâtie à téhéran où les traductions et les adaptations des pièces de molière ...

This paper, using science fiction as a heuristic support for exploring technical potentialities, is based on part of the works of Iain M. Banks, the novels of the “Culture series”, in order to examine the role of artificial intelligences and the effects they could have on the life of a community from a political point of view. This series of science fiction novels portrays a galactic civilizati...

We aimed at better understanding the brain mechanisms involved in the processing of alerting meaningful sounds during sleep, investigating alpha activity. During EEG acquisition, subjects were presented with a passive auditory oddball paradigm including rare complex sounds called Novels (the own first name - OWN, and an unfamiliar first name - OTHER) while they were watching a silent movie in t...

This paper proposes an examination of recent (published since the late 1960s) editions of nineteenth-century Brazilian and Spanish American novels with a considerable component of romanticism. It focuses upon the way in which editors, translators, preface-writers, and especially illustrators, seek to communicate to current-day readers the significance and worth of novels written under the sway ...