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 paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within english as a foreign language (efl) secondary school classrooms in syria. recently, the syrian ministry of education (moe) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in efl teachers’ instructional practices. despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

This article analyzes the discourse and practice of migration management in Turkey. It identifies four major
 themes between 2014 2020: Migration as a 1) burden, 2) humanitarian responsibility,
 3) justification for transborder operations, 4) fault line Turkey-European Union (EU) relations. Then
 it practices three categories: legal challenges, agents relations of
 policing,...

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...

the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

Significantly, many of these problems can be traced to the internal workings of the organization. For example, the absence of a learning culture and negative attitudes towards knowledge creation and reuse by employees reflect organizationally-engrained problems that are difficult to be uprooted. These problems could be mitigated if the dysfunctional internal workings of the organization can som...

This paper deals with the transnational cooperation of Czech and German extreme right. The focuses on one most prominent international partners right – Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands. By adopting discourse analytical framework Essex School, author revealing discursive conditions as possibility within which between NPD has gradually formed over last 25 years (1996-2021). text first br...