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Download full textKoochacki, Fahime – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The rich cultural connotations behind puns and the distinctive features of the puns' form, sound and meanings pose great challenges to the translator. Furthermore, given puns' non-negligible effects in Persian literary texts, it has been the aim of the present study to analyze and measure how puns in Sa'di's Ghazals have actually been treated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Translation, English (Second Language)
Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Tarvirdizadeh, Zahra; Paidary, Sara Sayed; Binti Mat Hussin, Nur Izyan Syamimi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The Problem Statement (PS) section of a thesis, usually a subsection of the first chapter, is supposed to justify the objectives of the study. Postgraduate students are often ignorant of the rhetorical moves that they are expected to make in their PS. This descriptive study aimed to explore the rhetorical moves of the PS in Iranian master's (MA)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Rhetoric
Ansari, Mohammad Javad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Cognitive Linguistics has been applied in SLA in order improve the learning/acquisition process of foreign/second language. This quasi-experimental study was conducted to find the impact of the Cognitive Linguistics on learning/ acquiring the Phrasal Verbs among EFL learners at intermediate level. In this study the orientational metaphors were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Biria, Reza; Zavari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the functional role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English and Persian Economic news reports. To this end, 10 news articles, 5 in each language, were randomly selected from the Economic sections of the leading newspapers published in 2013-2014 in Iran and the United States. Based on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Indo European Languages, Newspapers
Aliakbari, Mohammad; Allahmoradi, Nazal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Basil Bernstein (1971) introduced the notion of the Restricted and the Elaborated code, claiming that working-class speakers have access only to the former but middle-class members to both. In an attempt to test this theory in the Iranian context and to investigate the effect of social class on the quality of students language use, we examined the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Middle Class
Mehrseresht, Kowsar; Gowhary, Habib; Azizifar, Akbar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study compared the relationship between the use of Persian vs. English in teaching English grammar to Iranian students and their achievement in learning English grammar. The participants of this study include 50 female students from a junior high school in Mehran. The researcher randomly selected 2 groups, one group was taught through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage
