Volume 2, Issue 1

 

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  • Narration in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: A Postcolonial Reading 

    Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim؛ Alami, Mehdi (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    This study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. It is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. In other words, it investigates the connection ...

  • Another Look at the Hypocrisy of Chaucer’s Pardoner 

    Loweymi Mutlaq, Kareem (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious ...

  • The Effect of Hedging Instruction on Reading Comprehension for Iranian University Students 

    Jalilifar, Alireza؛ Shooshtari, Zohreh؛ Mutaqid, Sattar (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    This study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on English forSpecific Academic Purposes (ESAP) reading comprehension performance ofEnglish Language Learning (ELL) university students. A reading ...

  • L2 Learners’ Stylistic Penchant and Perceived Aptness for Metaphors and Similes 

    Hashemian, Mahmood (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    Aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference ...

  • A Comparative Study of Metaphorical Markers in Academic Research Articles 

    Khany, Reza؛ Rostami, Mehdi (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' ...

  • What Do Iranian EFL Learners and Teachers Think of Teaching Impoliteness? 

    Ahmadi, Alireza؛ Heydari Soureshjani, Kamal (Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2011-04-01)
    Every language involves friendly and polite as well as hostile and impolite situationsin which language users have to use the context-appropriate language. However,unlike politeness which has generated a great ...