Language Research - Articles in Press

A Multi- modal Study of the Negares in “Siavash” and “Zahak’s” Narratives (Based on The Grammar of Reading Images Approach of Kress and Van Leeuwen)

Ladan Javaheri; Amer Gheitury; Koroosh Saberi

Volume 9, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 59-78

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.66650

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The Grammar of Reading Imagesis a new look into pictures, located in social semiotics. It is implemented in decoding the pictorial signs. Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006), inspired by Halliday’s ... Read More

A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis of Young Adult Novel «Mosabeghe.com» Based on Deconstructional Approach

Amir Hossein Rahimi Zanjanbar; Fateme Bostani; Hossein Zare

Volume 10, Issue 1 , June 2019, , Pages 59-82

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2019.72001

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Deconstruction is critiquing the hierarchical oppositions which comprise the basis of the western ideology system; oppositions such as in / out, presence / absence. To deconstruct and ... Read More Deconstruction is critiquing the hierarchical oppositions which comprise the basis of the western ideology system; oppositions such as in / out, presence / absence. To deconstruct and opposition is to show that it is not natural and inevitable but a construction, produced by discourses that rely on it, and to show that it is construction in a work of deconstruction that seeks to dismantle it - that is, not destroy it but give it a different structure and functioning. As a mode of reading, that is a "teasing out of warring forces of signification within a text", an investigation of the tension between modes of signification, as between the performative and constative dimensions of language. Semiology is a method of reading texts, such as deconstruction, which can be employed in a myiad of approaches while treating a text. Considering that semiology is the study of signs in a discource, the current research does a semiotics reading of the young adult novel ''Mosabeghe.com'' through the lens of Derrida’s deconstruction, as one of the most significant poststructuralist approaches. Since a poststructuralist analysis aims to introduce possibilities of new significations in the text, the poststructuralist reading of the named text results in a new reading, opposing the dominant method of reading texts. On the one hand, Derrida agrees with Freud that the structure of experience, as that of the trace, rests on absence and distance; thus, to do a psychoanalytic treatment of the text, the present research studies the relationship between Freud’s tripartite model, id/ego/superego, and Derrida’s method of «deconstruction» in the abovementioned story, as well as the relationship between Nicolajeva’s tripartite model-children’s story, prelapsarian / carnivalesque / postlapsarian, poststructuralist semiology. Considering noticeable lack of research in the field of semiology in children’s literature in Iran for the first time, and also strategically deconstructs the relationship between poststructuralism and psychoanalysis.

Passive suffix *-i̭á- in Iranian languages

Hosein Solgi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , April 2013, , Pages 61-74

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2013.35925

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Vowel harmony and disharmony in the Azerbaijani the Turkish language

Seyyed Mohammad Razinejad

Volume 4, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2014.50269

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Harmony and disharmony are generally considered in isolation in the phonological literature. This has led to a striking asymmetry in their analyses. In this article, it is argued that ... Read More

The Position of Stress in Persian Bound Morphemes

Aliyeh Kord-e Zafaranlu Kambuziya; Farzaneh Tajabadi; Ferdows Aghagolzadeh

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56642

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Stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. All of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own ... Read More

Vowel Quality in Persian: Stable or Unstable?

Vahid Sadeghi; Niloofar Mansoory Harehdasht

Volume 6, Issue 2 , January 2016, , Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.57500

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This paper addresses the validity of two hypotheses concerning changes of vowel quality in Persian. The theory of centralization claims that there is a strong correlation between vowel ... Read More

An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Phonology-Semantics Interaction in Persian

Bashir Jam

Volume 9, Issue 2 , January 2019, , Pages 67-87

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.69529

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The relationship between semantics and phonology is generally denied (Archangeli & Pulleyblank, 1994: 5, 433). That is, semantic and phonological changes usually apply independently. ... Read More

The Effect of Persian on Azerbaijani Compound Verb Construction

abdolhossein heydari

Volume 10, Issue 2 , March 2020, , Pages 67-82

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2020.285901.666532

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The aim of this research is to study the effect of Persian language on Azerbaijani compound verb construction. Data were collected from Azerbaijani resources and the interactions of ... Read More The aim of this research is to study the effect of Persian language on Azerbaijani compound verb construction. Data were collected from Azerbaijani resources and the interactions of 30 speakers of this language in Ardabil province (Ardabil, Meshkin Shahr and their surrounding regions). Native Azerbaijani compound verbs plus those borrowed from Persian were extracted from the collected data and their frequency was determined. The research method is descriptive-analytic, because at first the data were classified in the framework of the verb accommodation strategies in the borrowed language and they were analyzed according to the common approaches in language contact literature. Results show that no Persian finite verb has entered Azerbaijani language. Azerbaijani language uses two strategies to accommodate Persian finite verbs. The light verb construction and indirect insertion are two important strategies that Azerbaijani speakers use to accommodate Persian verbs. The frequency of light verb construction (Persian non-verbal element + Azerbaijani light verb) in the speakers’ speech is very high in comparison to indirect insertion strategy (Persian noun or adjective + Azerbaijani verb making affixes) and Azerbaijani native compound verbs. In spite of some previous studies considering Azerbaijani compound verbs as patterns borrowed from Persian, this research finding shows that light verb construction is not a new pattern in Azerbaijani and this construction exists in the language itself. Azerbaijani speakers use the extending strategy to increase the frequency of this construction matching that of Persian. Borrowed Persian non-verbal element causes Azerbaijani speakers to choose among alternative verb making constructions (Persian non-verbal element + Azerbaijani light verb and Persian noun or adjective + Azerbaijani verb making affixes) the one corresponding to Persian construction. This change resulting in Azerbaijani progressive convergence to Persian is a natural consequence of language contact.

Derivational Prefixes Ordering

Maryam Hemasian; Adel Rafiei; Batool alinezhad

Volume 12, Issue 1 , July 2021, , Pages 71-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2020.268569.666420

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Affix ordering is a theoretical discussion in morphology. There has been some debate over the existence of general principles or mechanisms governing affix ordering. In this regard, ... Read More Affix ordering is a theoretical discussion in morphology. There has been some debate over the existence of general principles or mechanisms governing affix ordering. In this regard, we can point to three principal approaches. The first approach named the stratum-oriented model (Siegel, 1974; Allen, 1978; Kiparsky, 1982; Mohanan, 1986), believes that lexicon has a layered structure and can determine the affixes' combinations. The second approach relies on Selectional Restrictions' affix oriented (Fabb, 1988; Plag, 1999). These restrictions include restrictions of the group of affixes and phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntax restrictions. This approach claims that the description of possible and impossible combinations of affixes is related to describing the functions of restrictions. The third approach formed the theoretical framework of the present study by providing a psycho-linguistic model based on this idea that the affix ordering is a function of the degree of parsability of affixes from their bases (Hay 2000; 2002). According to this approach, affixes parsed easily in language processing cannot stay near the base relative to the affixes with a lower degree of parsability. Plag (2003) called the approach as Complexity-Based Ordering (CBO). The question is that how can we describe the Persian derivational prefixes ordering based on the CBO framework. For this reason, by selecting 17 prefixes 2200 derivational words extracted from database. By considering prefixes co-occurrences the rank of each prefix was obtained by using directed-graph and upper triangle square matrixes. According to this theoretical framework, by using frequency of derivational words and bases we could draw the scatter plot and determined the rank of type and token frequency ratio. Finally, according to data and by using the rank of parsability, type and token frequency ratio, we assessed the continuum of Persian prefixes ordering. Similar to Hay and Plag (2004) findings, this approach can describe Persian prefixes ordering as well as English affixes ordering

Apology or Non- apology: An Interfacial Approach to the Discourse Analysis of Official Apologies in the Iranian Media

Hadaegh Rezaei

Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2021, , Pages 73-95

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2020.306113.666621

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Apology has been mostly studied from a pragmatics standpoint and as a frequent speech act, especially in Persian language. This paper, however, aims at a discourse analysis of apology, ... Read More Apology has been mostly studied from a pragmatics standpoint and as a frequent speech act, especially in Persian language. This paper, however, aims at a discourse analysis of apology, taking as its framework, the interdisciplinary approach introduced in Lakoff (2015). The data are collected form official apologies in the Iranian media between 2015- 2018. The results show that firstly, without taking an interdisciplinary stance many interactional aspects of this speech act is neglected. This is because apology is one of the face- saving speech acts in the representation of which contextual and interpersonal factors, and the speaker’s and addressee’s perspective play an important role in the ways preferred by the speaker to apologize. Moreover the nature of public and political discourse multiplies the complexities and forces the speakers get the benefit of all linguistic and extra- linguistic means at different levels to achieve their communicative goals. Secondly, the prototypical explicit apologies in public discourse are rare, so that most of the cases studied are instances of non- apology rather than apology. The reason behind this fact can be traced back to the nature of public and political discourses in which apology would bring about negative consequences for the apologizer. Also, one of the main presuppositions of this speech act is that the apologizer implicitly accepts the responsibility of the wrongdoing and her reluctance to apologize explicitly in public and political discourse is a conscious or unconscious attempt to avoid the negative consequences of shouldering the responsibilities in these formal settings. Accordingly, different representations of apology can be placed somewhere on a continuum with prototypical apology at one end and non- apology at the other one. This paves the way for considering apology as a radial category at the level of discourse and for adding a cognitive level of analysis to the framework at hand.

Merge Position of Floating Quantifier "Hame" in Persian

Safa Sadeghi Ashrafi; Ali Darzi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2022, , Pages 77-100

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2021.291976.666554

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This paper investigates the External Merge position of the floating quantifier “hame” (all) in Persian. Quantifier floating has received two major analyses: stranding adverbial. ... Read More

Emphatic Progressive Verbal Constructions in Hawrami

Yadegar Karimi, Zanyar Naghshbandi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2011, , Pages 83-100

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The present paper tries to introduce a special type of verbal constructions in "Hawrami". These constructions, called emphatic progressive verbs in this paper, are composed of two conjoined ... Read More

A Study of Semantic Shifting in Persian Proverbs

Rahele Gandomkar

Volume 1, Issue 1 , November 2010

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Semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by Safavi (1379). The meaning of different ... Read More

Causative alternation in Persian

Ali Safari; Gholamhosain Karimi doustan

Volume 4, Issue 1 , April 2013, , Pages 75-94

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2013.35928

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In this article, the causative alternation in Persian is discussed. First, it is shown that Persian anticausative verbs involve a CAUSE component and an implicit external argument. ... Read More

Cyclic Grammaticalization of Yæ'ni ('meaning') from the Perspective of Discourse Grammar

Mohammad Amouzadeh; Azam Noora

Volume 5, Issue 1 , September 2014, , Pages 75-93

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2014.52661

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On the basis of Discourse Grammar (DG), this study investigates the expression of yæ'ni in Persian. The term was originally borrowed from Arabic and has undergone the process ... Read More

Compensatory Lengthening in Persian: A Perception Experiment

Vahid Sadeghi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2011, , Pages 77-94

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This article addresses the perceptual correlates of compensatory lengthening in Persian. In a perception experiment, duration, spectral tilt measurements H1-H2 and H1-F1 and F0 were ... Read More

Modal System in Persian

Gholamhossein Karimi-Doostan; Negin Ilkhanipour

Volume 3, Issue 1 , October 2013, , Pages 77-98

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2012.30296

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In the present paper, we are to put forth a paradigm for the systematic study of modality in Persian.With this end in view, we consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can ... Read More

Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Persian: The Structural Question

Yadgar Karimi; Hasan Azmoudeh

Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2013, , Pages 77-94

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2013.35362

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This paper presents an investigation of the structure of Persian clauses which display verb phrase ellipsis. To this end, verb phrase ellipsis in Persian will be discussed in the light ... Read More

Metaphor; A Survey on the Factors Related to Semantic Comprehension; their Effectiveness and Psychological Reliability

Leila Erfaniyan Qonsoli; Shahla Sharifi

Volume 5, Issue 2 , March 2015, , Pages 77-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.54186

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The present study is a randomized pilot project that intends to test the Graded Salience Hypothesis (Giora, 1997), to investigate the major factors contributing to understanding meaning. ... Read More

Ranking of Persian Speech Phonemes from the Point of View of Efficiency in Speaker Recognition

Javad Sheykhzadegan

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 77-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.59415

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In this paper, the efficiency of Persian speech phonemes from the point of view of efficiency in speaker recognition has been studied, and then with due attention to efficiencies, the ... Read More

The Nanosyntax of Element Movement in Circumpositions of Kurdish (Sorani Dialect)

Ebrahim Morady; Abbas Ali Ahangar; Gholamhosain Karimi doustan

Volume 7, Issue 2 , January 2017, , Pages 77-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.61526

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This paper, based on nanosyntax, studies the semantico-syntactic contribution of Kurdish circumposition [elements (l{ ...(d) a, l{ ...{w{, w{...(d) a, w{ ...{w{) and their movement ... Read More

Semantics Relations of Persian Verb "gereftan": Filmore's Frame Semantic (1997)

Mansoureh Delaramifar; pakzad yousefian; mohammad allahbakhash; Abbasali Ahangar

Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 79-98

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2017.63136

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Since the verbs are the most important grammatical category in a language and actions, activities and states are denoted with the help of them, the goal of this project is to study ... Read More

A Study of the Optimal Innovation Hypothesis in "a Poem for the War" from Qeisar Aminpur

Leila Erfaniyan Qonsuli; Mostafa Bahraman

Volume 8, Issue 2 , January 2018, , Pages 79-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.65516

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According to optimal innovation hypothesis, pleasure hinges on recognizing the familiar in the novel. This is like deviation and foregrounding in the literature and language. This research ... Read More

Mapping Inter-field Studies and Interdisciplinarity in Iranian linguistics with ArcGIS Software

Fatemeh Masoumi; Ali Reza Gholi Famian

Volume 9, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 79-98

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2018.66651

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ArcGIS is a software program to depict geographical features as well as abstract concepts. Given the significant changes in scientific disciplines, the present study employs ArcGIS ... Read More

The Analysis of Persian Vowels Glottal Wave Using Electroglottography

Nda Musavi; Batool Alinezhad

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 81-97

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56643

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In this research, we investigated the glottal wave of Persian vowels, using electroglottography. In the first level, the properties of vowels glottal wave were analyzed. In the second ... Read More

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