this article traces the way women are represented in three novels written by women during the reform government 1375-1384/1996-2005. the most important characteristic of these novels is the internal dialogue of the narrator. this phenomenon helps to penetrate the layers of the female mind and to reach the inner world of women. this is a new phenomenon in the iranian novel and our aim is to know...

Abstract This study aimed to investigate how English language teaching textbooks portrayed male and female social actors according to their social roles and gender identities. To examine the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in ELT textbooks, Top Notch series was selected. To do so, attempts were made to analyze the series in terms ...

I our consumption-oriented, mediated society, much of what comes to pass as important is based often on the stories produced and disseminated by media institutions. Much of what audiences know and care about is based on the images, symbols, and narratives in radio, television, film, music, and other media. How individuals construct their social identities, how they come to understand what it me...