this paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine discursive representations of older people in taiwanese newspapers. a total of 926 references to older people were sampled from 62 articles published in four taiwanese newspapers from january to august 2013. the findings suggest that, older people were frequently allocated roles suggestive of dependency. those portrayed in line with the pos...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

the article includes two discourses: first discourse, discusses about modernity and two of its main foundations; rationalism and humanism, and then explanes their impacts on the formation of the modern world, society and human being. second discourse, considers the postmodern critical approach to modernity and its principles. postmodernism, totally rejects the modern reason and deconstructs all...

Aiming at highlighting the important role of print media discourse in the implicit  transfer of  the dominant ideology of discourse context, the present data-driven paper demonstrates  how the lexical features of repetition and synonymy as well as the structural and thematic features of passivization, nominalization and predicated theme were utilized by the discourse producers to mediate betwee...

The present study sought to investigate the extent to which Persian idiomatic expressions would influence the western translators' strategies in providing the ultimate product in English, and it also attempted to uncover the underlying assumptions in target text, then to suggest some weighty strategies to overcome difficulties with translation. For this purpose, the data was analyzed within the...

recognition of the accurate concept of rafḍ (heresy), its characteristics, and its precise and fair definitions is of high importance, especially given that the sunnī jurists have stipulated critical consequences and rulings such as blasphemy on rāfiḍī. entering into the field of jurisprudential discourse, this article analyzes various opinions on the concept of rāfiḍī and the most significant ...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...