This study aims to describe and convey the types purpose of each speech acts in a novel entitled Al-Zaynī Barakāt written by Jamal Al-Ghitani. Using character or place as title chapter, consists 272 pages with seven sub-chapters. The research focusses on examining locutionary illocutionary acts. In doing analysis, researcher uses Austin's theory (1962) combined Searle's (1969) for perlocutionar...

*Corresponding author: Seyed Seifollah Beladi-Mousavi, Chronic Renal Failure Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: [email protected] With interest, we read the article by Hernandez et al. about increasing awareness of chronic kidney disease and aging (1). We agree with the authors of the article that, the dia...

We continue the work initiated in [1–3], where the acceptance logic, a modal logic for modelling individual and collective acceptances was introduced. This logic is aimed at capturing the concept of acceptance qua member of an institution as the kind of attitude that agents are committed to when they are “functioning as members of an institution”. Acceptance logic can also be used to model judg...

1Isfahan Eye Research Center (IERC), Feiz Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 2Ophthalmology Ward, Feiz Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 3Medical Students Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Correspondence: Seyed-Hossein Abtahi; SHARNOS Co. No. 9, Boroomand, Seyed-Alikhan, Chaharbagh Abbasi; 81448-1...

| 2017 | 1 Seyed-Hossein Abtahi1,2, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi1,2, Seyed Ali Akbar Mortazavi1,2, Hamidreza Jahanbani-Ardakani2,3,4, Mehdi Mazloumi5 1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2Isfahan Eye Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 3Medical School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 4Isfahan Medical Students Research Cent...