Publication Date: 2024
Research in Contemporary World Literature/ Pazhuhesh-e Zabanha-ye Khareji (25887092)29(2)pp. 673-688
Afghan women have experienced varying circumstances throughout different periods, and during the two eras of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, their activities and presence in society have been severely repressed. Deprivation of education, work, and social participation, confinement at home, forced marriages, violence for non-compliance, and other issues are among the challenges faced by Afghan women. For this reason, writers and women’s rights advocates, through novels and articles, depict Afghanistan’s patriarchal society and defend the women of this land by narrating real stories. Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American author, attempts to represent the plight of these women and the patriarchal atmosphere in Afghanistan in his famous novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Deborah Rodriguez, an American hairdresser, in her book The Kabul Beauty School, recounts her memories of staying in Afghanistan and portrays the role of women in this land along with their suffering and struggles through the lens of literature. In this context, the role of place and space in shaping these two literary works, with the aid of geographic criticism, is highly significant. This research aims to examine the representation of "self" and "other" in these two works and their manifestations within the space of Afghanistan. It also seeks to explore the impact of post-colonial studies on analyzing the perspectives of migrants versus local viewpoints. Additionally, the study investigates the transition from depicting real space to imagined space regarding Afghan women in the mind of the Western migrant and its influence on the reader. 4o. © The Author(s).
Publication Date: 2019
Language Related Research (23223081)10(5)pp. 183-207
Consonant clusters that are composed of/R/and other consonants are among the phonetic properties of the French language. Although in the L1 of Persian language learners the syllabic structure of CC is at the end of a Word (but not at the beginning), the correct pronunciation of consonant clusters has always been a difficult task for beginner level learners and even sometimes for higher level learners. Using acoustic phonetics, this study investigated the physical structure of the two consonant clusters of [pR] and [tR] in the French language. A hypothesis could be made that Iranian FFL learners, especially at elementary levels, have a problem in reproducing consonant clusters at the beginning of the target French Words rather than at the end of these Words. To evaluate this hypothesis, phonetic productions of six first-year students at the University of Isfahan majoring in French language and literature were examined in terms of the first, second and third formants, as well as the energy level. Results demonstrated that the error rate of the learners in the re-production of consonant clusters [pR] and [tR] at the beginning and at the end of a Word has a significant relationship with the level of the marked consonant. Besides, the marked consonant clusters at the beginning and the end of target Words cause a phonetic error. © 2019, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
Publication Date: 2017
Language Related Research (23223081)8(8Tome38)pp. 187-216
Teaching/learning French nasal vowels are one of the problems encountered by Iranian teachers and students in institutes and universities. The problems arise due to the fact that there are no approximate phonetic analogues for those vowels in Persian. In the present study, the acoustic phonetics is used. It is a method based on acoustic analysis using speech analysis and phonetics software. In recent years, voice analysis software’s have made it possible to identify phonetic errors with precision. The research objective is to identify French nasal vowels errors by Iranian students and analyze inter-phoneme-phonetic data. The population under study consists 8 students of the French language at University of Isfahan during the first semester 2015-16. Student’s oral productions have been analyzed by using analysis software with regard to structural physical parameters of F1, F2 and F3. As the results of the present study demonstrate, students in the production of French nasal vowels (CVn) are in trouble due to the absence of such vowels in the native language. The process of “unpacking nasal vowels” and “nasalizing the oral vowels” are evident due to the impact of native language. Therefore, the frequency of phonetic errors, French nasal vowels, has a meaningful relationship with the French nasal vowels characteristics and phonetic structure of the students’ native language. © 2017, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
Publication Date: 2022
Semiotica (00371998)2022(246)pp. 1-18
Widely exploited in different fields of study and practice in information and communication sciences and discussed in research related to the cultural world (museums, libraries, and cultural centers), the notion of mediation has not ceased to extend, despite its conceptual diversity, to other spheres of the human and social sciences. Considered as a vehicle of the process of semiosis, this notion interposes itself in the heart of the semiotic reflection as an instance in charge of passing on the meaning. This study focuses on the space of the city, its components, and the practices that take place there. It inquires how the bridge as an architectural element in the space of a city is able to function as semiotic mediator by its status, the practices that take place there, and the values that it carries. We will try to show through the study of our object, the Khadjou bridge in Isfahan, Iran, how this mediating role is implanted at the cognitive as well as at the emotional level of its citizens. © 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
Publication Date: 2020
Semiotica (00371998)2020(233)pp. 179-204
Les études déjà menées depuis des années 1970 autour de la sémiotique de l'espace montrent que les fondements méthodologiques et épistémologiques de cette approche se situent bel et bien, dans la lignée de la sémiotique structurale. Pourtant, certains espaces et le sens qui y émerge en acte ne peuvent pas être réduits à un cadre théorique si restreint. Cet article se propose de montrer, à travers l'analyse d'une chambre décrite par Sohrab Sépehri (1928-1980), poète et peintre moderne iranien, comment l'explication de la production du sens dans cet espace échappe aux fondements de l'appareil théorique classique. Notre hypothèse est que cette chambre en tant qu'espace qui ne se veut plus comme un objet-valeur, ni comme un espace opératoire ou manipulateur, prend sens dans un processus interactionnel comme un mouvement tourbillonnaire qui implique le sujet, l'entoure, l'engage et le fait ainsi vivre une expérience vécue. Cet espace éprouvé devient ainsi l'espace existentiel de la présence du monde du poète. Mais selon quelles caractéristiques déterminons-nous le régime d'espace auquel appartient la Chambre bleue de Sépehri Comment et dans quelle mesure la Chambre qui appelle le poète sans arrêt, contribue à lui former un nouvel être au monde et à le faire avancer dans son itinéraire transcendant C'est à ces questions que ce texte essaiera de répondre. © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2020.
Publication Date: 2017
Studia Iranica (02215004)46(1)pp. 125-142
The late arrival of postmodern American and French novels in Iran explains, clearly, the delay of Persian literature in creating works that would reflect the postmodern world where man has no knowledge of himself. Despite the efforts of young writers, postmodern works have barely succeeded in implementing features of the postmodern novel, and they seem to be rather formal imitations of foreign works. This paper aims to follow the progress of this literary movement in Persian literature and to show, through one of Mohammad Hasan Šahsavai's works entitled The Possible Night (Šab-e Momken) (1971), as a successful example of this kind, how the distinguishing characteristics of postmodernism arise in the Persian novel and to what extent Šahsavari's work is a postmodernist piece of literature. We will explain the mechanisms that the writer activates-on the narrative level as well as the socio-cultural context - in order to prove that this work can appear as a postmodern work. © 2017 Peeters Publishers. All Rights Reserved.
Publication Date: 2017
Language Related Research (23223081)8(8)pp. 1-21
By adopting the insights of phenomenological approach since late 80th century we easily observe the passage from classic narrative scheme to the semiotics with sensible and existential landscape. This approach is called semiotics with ontological foundations in which the reading and interpretation is no more related to the simple coding of a text, but it involves in movement towards the live experience of signification process in the world. In the discourse of Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, we encounter with this manner of presence and interaction of subject with the world; that is to say, the perception of character from the world, himself and other (alterity) depends on sensible and dynamic presence of subject with his constant interaction with phenomena. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze by referring to Landowski and Greimas’s theories and ideas, the presence of the subject and his relationship with himself and others. Then, we study how the interaction with the "other" creates new systems such as the transcendental or ecstasy discourses and how the being of subject is determined in interaction with others. © 2017, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
Publication Date: 2016
Language Related Research (23223081)7(2)pp. 1-18
“Forgiveness” is a collection of stories of Sadegh Hedayat’s Three drops of blood. It narrates the story of a woman whose jealousy causes the death of the first and second children of his husband’s second wife and the latter. The history is full of sense of reproach and suffering of the feelings of jealousy. In this study, we try to analyze, following the theory of Landowski on the human feelings and the patterns provided by experts as Greimas, Fontanille and Landowski about the human emotions’s production, the “jealousy” through the perspective of semiotics of passion. The aim of this research is to show how this feeling takes the discursive properties. We will also examine how the status of emotion of jealousy in this story corresponds with the systematic patterns of semiotics of Paris school and its recent theories. This review will provide and assess the applicability of these models on the Persian literary products. © 2016, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
Publication Date: 2016
Social Sciences (discontinued) (18185800)11(6)pp. 903-905
Present era is the era of media diplomacy. These days collective medias play an important role in international relations and are known as a mirror which reflect countries through showing communities' culture and national identity and prepare the causes of foreign governments policy stability. Therefore, it is possible to consider group medias as efficient tools in order to realize the goals of foreign policy and reaching the national advantages of government which is the most important tool of cultural diplomacy. The main goal of this essay is to determine the important role and considerable effect of collective medias in progressing cultural diplomatic goals of France which was the first Western country that is committed to cultural diplomacy. Since French were the second European nation who accepted the democracy, at the beginning of the third millennium, media is still the fourth column of democracy for France which itself is the cradle of freedom of expression. © Medwell Journals, 2016.
Publication Date: 2015
Language Related Research (23223081)6(1)pp. 21-39
The “Discursive Semiotics” of speech is proposed as a new method for the analysis of literary texts in which the production of meaning is directly linked with sensory conditions’ perceptive. In these circumstances, the meaning does not follow a logical plan, rather due to the presence of the perceptual subject that makes the sign phenomenal in discours, it is continuous, fluid, multi-dimensional and always being reborn. This study examines the discursive process in three dimensions (emotional, perceptual and aesthetic) in the poetry of Nima, and presents this approach as a new method of text analysis. The study also looks at the way in which the poet describes the world. This study not only creates a new reading of the poetry of Nima but also shows how the process of producing the dynamic sense in the poem is formed. © 2015, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
Publication Date: 2021
Language Related Research (23223081)12(2)pp. 599-628
Russian and Persian languages, regardless of the linguistic worlds, are special languages in terms of phonetic system, grammar, vocabulary, etc. and have differences with each other Since the learners have already internalized the linguistic knowledge of the first language in their minds, they are very likely to commit errors in the process of learning a second language. This phenomenon, which is mostly natural and unavoidable, is referred to as interference. The present study aims to explore the effects of interference on the errors by providing evidence from the usual errors committed by the Persian-speaking learners of Russian in the elementary level. First, the authors attempt to detect and classify the speaking errors of the learners in terms of the type of interference, and then the authors provide an analysis of them. Phonetic tests are used to collect the data. The participants of the study were 51 elementary level students in Isfahan, Guilan and Gonbad universities. The analysis of the data suggests that the target language (Russian), as one of the influential factors contributing to interference, has a drastic impact on the errors committed by the Persian-speaking learners of Russian. © 2021, Tarbiat Modares University. All rights reserved.
