Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied...

This study combines semiotic theory with Turkish literature in implementation on one of Sabahattin Ali’s well-known novels, Madonna a Fur Coat. From the ideas C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure have many branches derived, which is so-called literary or narrative semiotics that deals unfolding structures signification works under leadership A. J. Greimas. Literary postulates idea should be a...

greimas and other semioticians of the paris school believe that reality is always illusive and that the factors affecting the formation of a narrative are always ambiguous. based on this view, a narrative is always a simulation of reality. based on greimas' actants model, this paper presents an analysis of two stories from tarikh-e beyhaghi, with the aim of revealing two types of narratives; th...