Recent Phd Dissertations in Cultural and Communication Studies

A Comparative Analysis of Self-Mentions in Applied Linguistics PhD Dissertations Written by Native and Non-Native English Writers

The purpose of the present study was to compare the PhD dissertations written by native and nonnative English writers in the field of Applied Linguistics with regard to the use of self-mentions. To this end, 40 Applied Linguistics PhD dissertations (20 written by native English writers and 20 by non-native English writers), were selected randomly among academic texts written in 2007-2017. The p...

Developing a Questionnaire for Assessing Iranian EFL Teachers’ Critical Cultural Awareness (CCA)

Critical cultural awareness as a component of intercultural competence (Byram, 1997, 2012) has received the extensive attention of scholars in the fields of language teaching, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, communication studies, etc. in the recent decades. However, no instrument has ever been developed to assess this construct among Iranian EFL teachers. To fill this gap, in...

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and ‎Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic ‎Analysis, Lauren Sadow, Bet Peeters & Kerry Mullan (Eds.) ‎‎(2019), Springer, ISBN 978-981-32-9982-5‎

Doctoral dissertations in Chinese Interpreting Studies: A scientometric survey using topic modeling

Despite being a relatively new discipline, Chinese Interpreting Studies (CIS) has witnessed tremendous growth in the number of publications and diversity of topics investigated over the past two decades. The number of doctoral dissertations produced has also increased rapidly since the late 1990s. As CIS continues to mature, it is important to evaluate its dominant topics, trends and institutio...

A look at phenomenon of dissertation ghost writing in Iran: Policies and the condition of possibility

The phenomenon of the theses and dissertation ghost writing is based on a number of conditions, overlapping procedures, conjuncture of policies and all kinds of policies, legislation, and practices in the academic institution. In this study, first, the growth trend of universities and academic institutions in the last two decades and then, the transformation in the policy of promoting professor...