this article examines women's discursive space of physical activity in order to answer an important question: why most women have problems with regular physical activity and cannot permanently benefit from a long-term regular exercise program. the analysis was performed with concepts discussed in the discourse theory of laclau and mouffe(1995). there are two main discourses in the women&ap...

in the field of critical literature, siavash kasraie and ahmad matar's poems can be comparatively analyzed in terms of their social background, poetic content and linguistic strategies. applying a.van dijk’s socio–cognitive model of discourses studies, this paper uses critical discourse analysis to identify discourses formed in the works of the poets and analyzes the ideologies and discourse-or...

About 110 years ago, Iran experienced a revolution, which was known to be an attempt for development and modernization. The revolutionary roots had been established by new-coming social forces named as intellectuals. Since studying the past highlights the future, the necessity of intellectuals’ discourse as well as understanding their discourse strategies on the road to development and modernit...

this paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in southwestern nigeria. the data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six southwestern states in nigeria (osun, oyo, ondo, ekiti, ogun, and lagos). the data were analyzed using halliday’s (1985) syste...

In light of a large number of admirable attempts which look at scientific discourse from social, dialogic and interpersonal points of view, the propositions which consider scientific discourse as an interactive endeavor are now well-established. By the force of our social constructivist gyrations, we have developed glimpses of a social, cultural and historical dimension in which the discourse o...

Critical pedagogy (CP), as a poststructuralist educational movement, challenges the asymmetrical, power-over nature of classroom discourse and seeks to accommodate multivocality in the classroom and in the society. This study probed the discourse architecture of EFL classrooms in Iran. Specifically, it aimed to explore to what extent Iranian EFL classrooms have stepped away from the teacher-dom...

The challenging issues of discourse relation recognition in Chinese are addressed. Due to the lack of Chinese discourse corpora, we construct a moderate corpus with humanannotated discourse relations. Based on the corpus, a statistical classifier is proposed, and various features are explored in the experiments. The experimental results show that our method achieves an accuracy of 88.28% and an...