Identity is a central focus of research in the social sciences, national and international politics, and everyday discourse. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary set of social scientists who study personal and social identity. The chapters span childhood through emerging adulthood. This chapter introduces the three goals of the volume: (1) illustrating how the study of identity deve...

Using Spencer-Oatey’s (2004, 2008) Rapport Management approach, this study was conducted to elicit the reprimanding response behavior of native Persian speakers and EFL Learners. The participants of this study were 30 native Persian speakers and 60 EFL learners. To fulfill the purposes of this study, a six-binary situation Interactive Discourse Completion (IDCT) Task was utilized. Emotion Liker...

Using Spencer-Oatey’s (2004, 2008) Rapport Management approach, this study was conducted to elicit the reprimanding response behavior of native Persian speakers and EFL Learners. The participants of this study were 30 native Persian speakers and 60 EFL learners. To fulfill the purposes of this study, a six-binary situation Interactive Discourse Completion (IDCT) Task was utilized. Emotion Liker...

historic cities contain an old urban structure, which have been formed over time, based on the city’s identity features and have emanated in the form of historical relations and elements; therefore the quality of interventions took place in these contexts couldn’t be ignored. tabriz is one of iran’s most important historic cities that its structural identity has changed throughout history due t...

the alsace-lorraine region in france has been at the center of many fateful events, such as two world wars, due to its distinct geographical placement between two important european countries – that is, france and germany. the identity of the alsace-lorraine population has had many links with germany because of geographical, linguistic and historical features that the two share. moreover, throu...

shahanshāhnāma is one of the historical epic poems composed by ahmad tabrizi at the end of the ilkhanids’ reign. at the time, the poet was not able to openly criticize the mongols. at times, one may even think that he is praising them. on the contrary, in the hidden layers of his composition, the poet tries to show his criticism by using rhetorical and linguistic tools and praising iran and ira...

Adopting a discourse-historical approach (DHA), we analyse how male influencers and their followers co-construct gender–state entanglement through social-mediated discussions about mythologised historical figure, Zhuge Liang, on Bilibili. The analysis discovers that the figure is portrayed as wen–wu masculinity archetype, whose imaginary modified against current socio-cultural trends intertextu...

This paper presents the results of the implementation of prototype culture heritage presentation systems in a village, a small town and a region. These systems focus on cost efficiency, sustainability, local identity and integration in tourism, and are based on an innovative approach of interactive storytelling. This approach facilitates effective public presentation of historical and archaeolo...

Culture-specific Chinese-styled branding as a rising trend in cultural and studies has provided new discourse for the discussion on national identity of Chineseness or chinoiserie that long existed, with further reflections Chinese fashion brand design known ‘Guochao’, which become an increasingly ubiquitous conceptual past five years. brands are changing their peripheral status impacting globa...