this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

a major concern in the last few years has been the fact that the cultural centers are keeping distance with what they have been established for and instead of reproducing the hegemony, they have turned into a place for resistance and reproduction of resistance against hegemony. because the cultural centers, as urban public spaces in the last two decades, have been the subject of ideological dis...

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

in defining and recognizing the originality of the carpet, it is necessary to adhere to the features of the appearance, including the color, design and function of the texture, such as the type of knot and tufts, and ... neglecting the intangible features such as the traditions of the tissue community and  The historical, social and economic status of that society leads to a complete lack of co...

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

چکیده بررسی عوامل مرتبط با نگرش به مهاجرت در بین جوانان دبیرستانی شهرستان استهبان به کوشش :رضا مظلوم زاده امروزه یکی از مسائل مورد علاقه پژوهشگران علوم اجتماعی و اقتصاد، بررسی مهاجرت از زوایای گوناگون است. در این میان مهاجرت داخلی سهم عمده ای از این مطالعات را به خود اختصاص می دهد. روند مهاجرت از روستاها و شهرهای کوچک به سمت مراکز شهری بزرگ تر و با امکانات بیشتر در حال افزایش است. ...