The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge ...

Scholars are increasingly interested in measuring latent political concepts embedded in written or spoken records. After all, most important political behaviors and outcomes are encoded in language. However, current approaches of turning natural language into meaningful measures are sometimes unsatisfying, relying on either costly and unreliable human coding or automated methods for document cl...

this study considers political culture (which is one of the most important issues in social and political sciences of students) in tehran university and effective factors on it. to analyze political culture, we used some theories of amond, verba, pay, rash, leibet and dal. in this study, the research method is the technique of collecting data and information through standard questionnaire. and ...

This paper is a critical examination of some current texts in the discourse of global economics using contributions from postcolonial theory. Through an application of the concepts of ‘knowing’ and ‘representation’, it looks at the persistence of colonialist discourse in global economics and the wider implications of this for the disciplines of management and economics. With the increasing pace...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

As a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has been investigated from various perspectives. The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-based study is an attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. A CDA approach, based on Fairclough (1989), Van Dijk (2004) and Farahzad (2007), was adopted to conduc...

geographical situation of gilan province, its weather and suitable conditions for agriculture, plus its neighboring with russia, have prepared the way for cultural, political and economical relations and interchanges between iran and russia. being called “the gate of europe”, the province also receives many tourists from many countries, especially russia. many of these tourists have recorded de...

This one-day workshop seeks to reflect on the notion of fabrication in both personal and industrial contexts. Although these contexts are very distinct in their economical and political vision, they share important characteristics (e.g., users interacting with specific fabrication equipment and tools). The workshop topic spans from personal fabrication to (automated) production, from applied to...

With the exponential rise in the volume of database there is a demand for faster and timely retrieval of data.Early data retrieval (IR) systems used straightforward tools of word matching, and the texts to be searched were small.But in the present situation, due to giant volume of knowledge sources ,which too is in numerous forms, there is a requirement of additional Economical retrieval techni...