ISIS has used language propaganda to further its sociopolitical objectives and defend harsh behavior through the miscontextualization of ḥadīth. This study uses linguistic stylistics demonstrate in ISIS's magazine “Dabīq,” which made piecemeal usage ḥadīth (Prophet Muhammad's sayings) justify actions. To do so, first thematizes ḥadīths that reported. It then points out silences (by “silences,” ...

The hypothesis that the passive voice is used to put the actor in the background and the acted-upon person in the focus of discourse is tested in the realm of sexual violence. German university students (N = 67) watched a silent video segment depicting a rape whose circumstances, depending on condition, could or could not be easily interpreted in terms of rape myths. Then they wrote down what t...

Utilizing the growth theory and the theory of complementarities as the guiding theoretical lenses, this study examines the impact of governance dimensions, namely, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption on e-government maturity in a country. Based on publicly available archival data from 183 countries, ...

This paper presents a discussion of the role of voice quality in prosody. Illustrations from past production and perception data by the authors indicate that source parameters other than f0 are an inherent part of prosody, implicated in both its linguistic and paralinguistic functions. While prosodic (intonational) analyses of a language tend to be largely presented in terms of f0 dynamics, the...

in this study, van dijk’s (1998) model of cda was utilized in order to examine the representation of iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by british news casting companies. the analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...