Persian poetry first entered the Indian subcontinent during the second period of Qaznavid dynasty in the north of India and is mainly reflected in the poetry of such poets as Masoud Saad Salman. The second wave started with the Moghul invasion during which many Iranian scientists, scholars, poets and Sufis moved to the north of India. The result of this mass emigration was the emergence of such...

the present research was conducted to accomplish two purposes. firstly, it aimed to explore and describe schematic structure or what halliday and hassan (1989, p.64) have called “generic structure potential” (gsp) of american english, iranian persian and iranian english newspaper editorials within systemic functional linguistics. secondly, a quantitative cross-comparison was made to investigate...

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

Founded on Shii beliefs, Safavid dynasty adopted an ideological policy for its survival. It went so far as to develop directives and a set of principles for poets and composing poetry. For instance, poets were expected to write odes about the position of His Majesty the King, the true follower of the Imams, and the Imams, peace be upon them. By doing this, they received rewards from the court. ...

nowadays, technical terminology translation plays an important role in human life. specific groups of people all over the world refer to learn these terminologies in order to be familiar with a subject and improve their knowledge in that domain. on the other hand, saving the technical translation equivalent is a particularly salient challenge for technical translators. the present study was con...