vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

the present paper deals with criminal issues. for example, legal injunction on the necessity of returning a deposit has a legal nature and legal injunction on the punishment of those who breach the trust has a criminal nature. existing social issues are the basis of classification of some instances into the issue, some of which are based on variation and others on quality. therefore, the motiva...

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...

This research is basically carried out to study the attitude of theology students toward the discipline of theology and Islamic science. To this aim first the questionnaire for measuring the attitude was designed and the psychometrical aspects of it were determined based on a preliminary study. Then through modifying the questionnaire, the attitude scale was made ready. 374 students majoring in...

When we look at and compare examples of hitherto known traditional arts, we come across many linguistic, expressive, and even formal differences. Giving the mere title of “traditional” to the works produced in the Islamic era and even earlier is due to the failure to consider and explain a high art period in the Persian art; a period to incorporate a number of such works and to exclude them fro...

Aesthetics is one of the important topics in the evaluation of works of art and can be examined from two aspects, objective and subjective. Rural and Tribal ruges in Iran are the result of the taste and mental creativity of weavers and designers who, despite being mentally woven, have a lot of harmony. The purpose of this study is to analyze the visual aesthetics of such carpets and due to thei...