feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

critical analysis of power discourse in zeinab habash’s poems discourse analysis is a modern approach which flourishing and growing in the context of postmodernism. norman fairclough’s three-dimensional framework in critical discourse analysis is one of the most practical aspects of this theory that includes analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (process...

with recently widespread use of mobile phones and sms communication in iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. with this in mind, the p...

considering the crucial role textbook evaluation plays in any educational system, this study evaluated 2 textbook series with respect to the identity options they offer to iranian learners of english. data were gathered based on reading passages, dialogues, and pictures of right path to english (rpe) and cambridge english for schools (ces). although this study is mainly qualitative in nature, q...

this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...