The analytical paper mainly deals with the questions how the image of Sister Phoenix, one of the most “popular” ugly stars in China is narrated, and how it is reconstructed and circulated by the media. In the paper, the author utilize multiple analytical devices, such as Gee’s seven building tasks (2010), Bahktin’s dialogical processes, Fairclough’s (2003) approaches to critical discourse analy...

This article examines different categories of expression genealogies family historiesthemes from the Sunjata epic principles of segmentation labour division in Mandeand proves that they all develop along lines of predictability and are therefore productsof the same discourse It is argued that genealogies are artificial kinship constructionswhich represent status claims Any genea...

Microblogs are considered as We-Media information with many real-time opinions. This paper presents a Twitter-OpinMiner system for Twitter sentiment analysis evaluation at SemEval 2015. Our approach stems from two different angles: topic detection for discovering the sentiment distribution on different topics and sentiment analysis based on a variety of features. Moreover, we also implemented i...

in the present paper, we are to put forth a paradigm for the systematic study of modality in persian.with this end in view, we consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can be expressed at the level of sentence, at the level of constituents smaller than sentence and/or at the level of discourse. in such a system where sentential modality, sub-sentential modality and discourse modality a...

This study is part of a broader research focused on written discourse analysis and its application in English language teaching. paper aims to design evaluate the validity content an instrument (a system categories) built analyse L2 (English) 112 Spanish students Upper Secondary Education. was carried out from qualitative approach using technique Delphi with five experts field. The results show...

Narratives are an integral part of human expression. In the graphic form, they range from cave paintings to Egyptian hieroglyphics, from the Bayeux Tapestry to modern day comic books (Kunzle, 1973; McCloud, 1993). Yet not much research has addressed the structure and comprehension of narrative images, for example, how do people create meaning out of sequential images? This piece helps fill the ...