in sociolinguistics, the role of factors such as level of education in different aspects of language has always been the focus of attention. the present research, which was conducted in mashhad, seeks to study phonological processes among educated and uneducated speakers compared to standard persian. the data was gathered through field method and interview to analyze processes such as assimilat...

Although the segmental properties of Kyungsang Korean have been known to be distinct from those of standard Seoul Korean, the increased influence of Seoul Korean on the regional variety casts doubt on the homogeneity of the dialect. The current study investigated whether the acoustic properties of the vowels and fricatives in Kyungsang Korean are retained by both younger and older generations t...

Cockerill, K. 2002. Context is Key: The Media Role in Shaping Public Perceptions about Environmental Issues. Environmental Practice 4(2): 107-113. (June 2002) Published by Cambridge University Press (ISSN: 1466-0474). DOI:10.1017/S1466046602021117 Publisher’s version available from Cambridge Journals Online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ENP Context Is Key: The Medi...

stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

OBJECTIVE Voice quality provides information about the anatomical characteristics of the speaker. The patterns of somatotype and body composition can provide essential knowledge to characterize the individuality of voice quality. The aim of this study was to verify if there were significant differences in somatotype and body composition between normal and dysphonic speakers. STUDY DESIGN Cros...

â  â  â  â â â  methods of speakers' effects on the audience â  â nasrollah shameli * â  fariba hosayni ** â â â  abstract â  this article is focused on four issues. the first issue is related to the speaker's external appearance including the beauty of face, the power of his voice, moves and signals by hand, the stick and eyebrow as well as the height. such characteristics could have...

The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...