نشریه پژوهش های زبان شناسی
سال ششم شماره 1 (پیاپی 10، بهار و تابستان 1393)

Fundamentalist discourse was divided into various sub-discourses in parliamentary elections in 1390. United Front of Fundamentalism and the Stability Front of the Islamic Revolution were the most important sub-discourses of the 1390 elections. The purpose of the present research is to study and analyze the sub-discourse of Fundamentalist base on Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) Discourse Theory and Fairclough’s (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis. The results showed that the United Front of Fundamentalism emphasizing on central signifier “velayt-e-faghih” and the floating signifiers such as “justice”، “spirituality”، “service”، “islam”، “economic development”، “stability” “spiritual and material development” made an attempt to hegemonize their own discourse through the deconstruction and redefinition of the opponent signifiers. In contrast، the Stability Front of the Islamic Revolution representing their articulation around central signifier “velayt” and different floating signifiers like “spirituality”، justice، “values”، “service”، “stability “.

This paper investigates the position of subject in Persian with particular reference to freezing effects first suggested in the study of syntactic islands. The research is carried out within the framework of minimalist theory and deals with a proposal by Boeckx (2003؛ 2008). In his analysis، it is argued that once subject DPs move to Spec TP to check their Case and the EPP feature of TP، they become frozen in a checking domain. The present study has analyzed Persian data in the light of this hypothesis. The results show that freezing effects as proposed by Boeckx receive support from Persian data: Subjects disallow subextraction in this language. We، then، take a look at previous studies on subextraction from DPs in Persian; and show that some Persian data are problematic for those analyses. Finally، we present an analysis based on freezing effects that supports Anooshe''s (1389) analysis according to which the canonical subject position in Persian is Spec، TP rather than Spec، vP.

Conversion is one of the most important word formation processes in languages. In conversion a word of one grammatical category becomes a word of another grammatical category without any changes to spelling or pronunciation. The present research studies conversion in Persian language with Ferenc Kiefer’s model (2005). The goal of this study is to determine the categories in Persian language which conversion is employed. First، 228 words are classified in different syntactic categorieswhich are obtained from Moaser Persian Dictionary by GholamHosein Sadri Afshar (2002)، then the words are analyzed and classified into six syntactic categories. Each category is studied to see if the existence of the words in different syntactic categories is as a result of conversion process or not. In this regard the three criterion of Kiefer’s model in Conversion areused; word class، lexicalization and direction; According to Kiefer’s three Criteria; there are three conversion processes in Persian language: Adjective to Noun، Adjective to adverb and Verb to Noun.

The present study aims to show how intersemiotic translation could be a stage for manipulation and alteration of the original text and culture. In a similar vein with Jakobson''s (1959) tripartite typology of translation، this study states that when the medium of communication is changed، clear traces of manipulation could be observed. This is specially the case when the textual medium is changed into the visual medium such as comics، pictures and book illustrations. The present paper’s claim is that when a translated book is published in the language of the target the pictorial elements tend not to fully manifest the cultural atmosphere of the original، but to distort the culture and words of the original. Such a manipulation of the original moves between the medium of translation i. e. textual and visual. The current claim not only suggest a superficial manipulation of the physical، atmospheric setting، but it also unveils a purposeful trend which aims to relocate the culture of the original in the complete، new arena of the target. Making use of Khayyam’s poetry illustrated by Edward Sullivan، the study found clear examples of manipulation where the words of the original where by some means were manipulated intersemiotically، and thus resulted in an altered image of Iranian culture.

Vowel reduction occurs in a rapid speech in unstressed syllables or it happens when an affix is added to a stressed syllable and it attracts the stress. Vowel reduction was described through different approaches like; Sonority-Based Reduction، Contrast Enhancement Reduction، Centripetal، Centrifugal and [AIU] model. In this article، we describe Persian’s vowel reduction by Anderson’s [AIU] model in which vowel phonetic information is encoded by phonemic categories and there is a direct relationship between vowels spectral profiles and phonemic categories [A،I،U]. Therefore، vowel reduction occurs when one of these categories delete (Deletion)، the categories are reversed (Reversion) or even one category is replaced by another (Augmentation). All of these processes are applicable in Persian.

This study attempts to study some Lori-Laki conversations based on silverstein’s framework in terms of cultural concepts and indexical orders. To this end، we apply his model as a kind of analytical tool to describe and analyse a number of interactions occurred among Lori and Laki speakers. Silverstein’s framework asserts that cultural concepts are indexed in participants’ lexicons، gestures and behaviours and are attainable by tools proposed in semiotic pragmatism. Indexical orders are likely to be obtained، and conversational orders are discernable by means of the application of poetic rituals upon the conversational discourse. Analysing conversations، it is possible to discover important factors such as “kind” of a person، participants’ biography and cultural –onomics. In this paper، we try to discover cultural concepts indexed in conversations of Lori and Laki’s speakers conversed in banquet rituals during Norouz. Some concepts like bala، belenga (up) and har، hwar (down) have been determined. The concept of poetic rituals employed as a tool to show that conversation are harmonious. Last but not least، the importance of the relation between micro-context and Macro-context have been confirmed through a conversation in which participants try to keep information away from an intruder.