this paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication accommodation theory (cat) for the study of patient-provider interaction. cat’s sociolinguistic strategies—approximation, interpretability, interpersonal control, discourse management, and emotional expression—are succinctly introduced and their use in studies of patient-provider interaction discussed. the majo...

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

this paper examines translating free indirect discourse (fid) in three persian translations of woolf's to the lighthouse. first, it is referred to narrative discourse and the linguistic markers of fid as well as its effects and functions briefly. then, translating fid in three hoseini's, bejanian's and keyhan's translations of woolf's novel is analyzed, through comparin...

Abstract: Mystic literature (Irfān) in general and Sufi literature in particular has always been alluring to the scholars interestingly working in different fields from literary, religious, philosophical, historical to other fields which may have little in common. Among Sufi theologians, Farid ud-Din Attar Neishabouri is the one whom no one has ever been able to surpass in creating works which ...

In her paper, "Chinese Feminisms and Adaptation-as-Translation Readings of Letter from an Unknown Woman," Jinhua Li investigates the complex cultural and political issues engendered by an increasingly popular phenomenon of transnational film adaptations. Through a comparative reading of Jinglei Xu's 2004 adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella Brief einer Unbekannten (Letter From an Unknown Woman)...

A political literary discourse is important at this moment, given the political upheavals that have engulfed African countries. The writer is often seen as an emancipator of the masses therefore, the imaginative writer can, through his work, offer critical appraisal of existing political situations in order to mould and redirect the actions of society, its belief and values. Literature can ther...

The modern conceptualization of retirement is changing as more people choose to work later in life or opt back into the workforce. AARP has contributed to the modern perception of retirement through its use of a strategic narrative titled “Modern Retirement.” This case study examined AARP’s strategic narrative in order to understand how it created and perpetuated the issue of adapting an older ...

imagined and anticipated in the form of demands by competing discourses that always seem to position us.