extended abstract 1. introduction without a doubt, people communicate their feelings and thoughts through discourse and texts. every text is formed based on some metalinguistic variables including, culture, history, relations of power, politics, norms, and rules of the society. the author is supposed to organize a text considering all these mentioned variables and the translator is expected to ...

BACKGROUND This article considers how health services access and equity documents represent the problem of access to health services and what the effects of that representation might be for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. We conducted a critical discourse analysis on selected access and equity documents using a gender-based diversity framework as determined by two obj...

One of the primary functions of a translator is to mediate not only between languages but also between cultures. As ideology is one of the crucial cultural constraints, it is essential to teach students that selection of translation strategy is always either implicitly or explicitly affected by the translator’s ideology. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of intr...

This article uses the occasion of the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to review the circumstances by which legal theory and social movement discourse have circumscribed the scope of VAWA and the dominant approach to domestic violence. This article seeks to explore the relationship between domestic violence advocacy and feminist theory, which has functioned as “the ...

straightforward indexes of identity. This lacks analytic validity but reveals the linguistic ideologies upon which the politics of nationalism often turn (Bauman and Briggs 2003). Following Stewart (2001), we should be cautious of modern notions that linguistic form (e.g., Bengali discourse full of Sanskritor Perso-Arabic-derived words) directly reflects an author’s politico-religious stance or...

This article reviews the significance of Jacques Rancière’s work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of framing methodology as an aesthetic endeavour, rather than as the applied technique of research. What is at stake in this distinction is the means by which research intervenes in social order and how it assumes political ...

using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. the study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? and if yes, can it be ana...

The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 by Congress in part to address preoccupations with breaches to homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. The Act requires states to introduce more standardized state driver’s licenses by 2008. The goal of this paper is to understand citizens’ opinions in the area of personal identification and how these opinions may be shaped by alternative framings of the iss...