This study was planned to investigate the effect of explicit teaching of some Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) techniques on Iranian EFL learners' Reading Comprehension. It was attempted to explore any change in the students’ abilities in revealing the implied meaning of the texts. Any change in the students’ views toward learning English was also explored in this study after critical reading ...

: ethics has been a subject of interest since the birth of philosophy. however, significance of ethics in modern time is more salient; time of ubiquity of technology in every aspect of human life. ethics similar to any human phenomenon has to do with language and in understanding it thoroughly, such features have to be examined. this research seeks to critically study the ethics in e-government...

in democratic governments, major basis of political power is people intention, and government is manifestation of national intention, and it's legitimacy is caused of public intention and will. in democratic governments, is applied political power through active political participation, that base on various political institutions of society is setting by public opinion and under people sup...

We propose and assess the novel idea of using automatically induced constructions as a unit of analysis for corpus-based discourse analysis. Automated techniques are needed in order to elucidate important characteristics of corpora for social science research into topics, framing and argument structures. Compared with current techniques (keywords, n-grams, and collocations), constructions captu...

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...

Critical pedagogy (CP) empowers L2 learners to have a voice in the classroom and in the society. This study was an attempt to investigate whether the current classroom discourse  in  Iran  can  endow  the  L2  learners with  a  critical  awareness  to  actively transform their learning processes and creatively engage in collaborative dialogues to construct new knowledge. To this end, the discou...

This research aimed to analyze the sexual comments made by men on women’s posts Twitter. During COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increase in use of social media Twitter makes it easier for individuals communicate with people they know and interact other users minimal restrictions. allows its upload selfies comment those pictures. analyzed @lucintaluna @dododid during 2021. The authors found thre...

Based on Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis model, this study investigates China's image in the English translation of country leader's New Year Greetings from 2014 to 2021. The method corpus linguistics is applied, and modal system systemic functional perspective employed. reveals that country's hardworking, enjoying good governance social harmony, pursuing peace develo...

Since the 1980s, there has been a growing body of critical theory in information systems research. A central theoretical foundation of this research is Habermas’ theory of communicative action, which focuses on implications of speech and proposes general normative standards for communication. Habermas also places particular emphasis on the importance of the public sphere in a democratic society...