Volume 57 (2024)
Volume 56 (2023)
Volume 55 (2022)
Volume 54 (2021)
Volume 53 (2020)
Volume 52 (2019)
Volume 51 (2018)
Volume 50 (2017)
Volume 49 (2016)
Volume 48 (2015)
Volume 47 (2014)

Exploring Grammatical Complexity across Proficiency Levels in Argumentative Essays by Iranian EFL Learners

Farzaneh Shadloo; Hesamoddin Shahriari Ahmadi; Behzad Ghonsooly

Volume 49, Issue 4 , February 2017, , Pages 61-75

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v49i4.61672

Abstract
  1. IntroductionGaining competence in writing academic texts has been considered as a challenging and important task in the process of second and/or foreign language learning; and "this realization is not surprising, given the similar difficulties related to the development of first language (L1) writing ...  Read More

An Investigation of Collocations in terms of Coherence and Fluency in Translated Literary Texts

Masood Khoshsaligheh; Elmira Soleimani Rad

Volume 51, Issue 1 , April 2018, , Pages 65-92

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v51i1.73676

Abstract
  1. Introduction Collocations are defined as syntagmatic and lexical structures that tend to go together repeatedly (Afshinpoor & Ibn al-Rasul, 2014). In other words, they are a sequence of words whose occurrence together is frequent, and this frequency is to a degree that cannot be considered accidental. ...  Read More

The Process and Features of Fansubtitling in Iran

Masood Khoshsaligheh; Elham Fazeli Haghpanah

Volume 49, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 67-95

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v49i2.59776

Abstract
  1. IntroductionThe current advancement of technology has significantly influenced various fields such as audiovisual translation. The emergence of fansub groups is among the most important effects of technological development in the translation world. Easy access to various types of computers as well ...  Read More

Aesthetic Equivalence in Translation of Literary Texts on the Light of Aesthetic Reception

Mohadese Safinejad; Ali Khazaeefar; Mahmud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh

Volume 47, Issue 4 , February 2015, , Pages 69-90

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v47i4.48332

Abstract
  Aesthetic equivalence is produced when both the source and target texts enjoy the same degree of interpretability with semantic explicitness. This requires both texts to have the same number of indeterminacies. Roman Ingarden, the Polish phenomenologist and aesthetician, was the first one to consider ...  Read More

The Impact of University Entrance Examinations Change on High School English Language Teaching and Learning: Experts’ and Teachers’ Perspectives

Parvaneh Shayeste-Far; Gholam Reza Kiany; Monireh Norouzi

Volume 50, Issue 3 , October 2017, , Pages 71-114

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v50i3.60074

Abstract
  1. IntroductionTesting-based reform has often been used as a lever for introducing desirable changes. This tenet is found in light of the claim that what is targeted to be measured by testing, in particular by tests of higher stakes, would strongly determine and shape what gets taught and learnt at the ...  Read More

Development and Validation of the Persian Scale of Teachers' Emotions for the Iranian EFL Teachers

Gholam Hassan Khajavy; Behzad Ghonsooly; Azar Hosseini Fatemi

Volume 50, Issue 4 , February 2018, , Pages 73-89

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v50i4.50262

Abstract
  1. IntroductionIn recent years, research on emotions has attracted the attention of many researchers (Butz, Stupnisky, & Pekrun, 2015; Frenzel, 2014). Teachers’ emotions can be as important as students’ emotions. Although many studies have focused on investigating emotions among students, ...  Read More

Comparative Evaluation of Motif Invulnerability in Three Literary Works " Iliad , Shahnameh and Nibelungenlied"

Mehrnoosh Mehrabi; Habib Kamali

Volume 48, Issue 1 , April 2015, , Pages 75-88

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v48i1.34607

Abstract
  This article compares the motif invulnerability in greek , Persian and Germanic mythology , specially in three greatest world literary epics : "Iliad , Shahnameh and Nibelungenlied " . The central figures of the epics are mythical gods and Heroes, supernatural beings and wonder animals . Mythology is ...  Read More

The Relationship between Cognitive Abilities and English Language Proficiency in Listening Comprehension of English as a Foreign Language

Mahsa Nadri; Purya Baghaei; Zahra Zohoorian

Volume 51, Issue 2 , July 2018, , Pages 75-90

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v51i2.76185

Abstract
  The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between a number of cognitive abilities (auditory/visual attention, processing speed, and fluid intelligence) and listening comprehension. A total of 97 undergraduate EFL students participated in the study. Tests of auditory and visual attention, ...  Read More

Comparative Criticism of Awareness of the Inner Hero in Two Stories “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” and “The Little Prince”

Raheleh Abdollahzadeh Borzu; Mohammad Reihani

Volume 52, Issue 3 , October 2019, , Pages 75-100

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v52i3.79781

Abstract
  The story “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach and the story “the Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry which have been written in the form of two pilots, and are reports of allegorical journeys for self-knowledge and perfection. Campbell believes that on ...  Read More

Exploring Iranian EFL Teachers’ Familiarity with Foreign Culture in Terms of Intercultural Competence

Parisa Taheri; Majid Elahi Shirvan; Behzad Ghonsooly; Ahmad Saffar Moghadam

Volume 48, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 77-92

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v48i2.44645

Abstract
  In today’s multiculturally interconnected world, cultural understanding is the key to communication and a buffer to communication breakdown. That is, the objectives of language learning cannot be viewed as a mainly linguistic task anymore; they should be directed towards achievement of intercultural ...  Read More

The Effect of Contrastive Phrase Re-Synthesis Instruction on Grammatical Accuracy: A Teachability Hypothesis Perspective

Manoochehr Jafarigohar; Afsar Rouhi; Majid Ghelichi

Volume 49, Issue 4 , February 2017, , Pages 77-98

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v49i4.52078

Abstract
  1. IntroductionThe role of phrases especially in a universal grammar (UG) sense and the presentation of grammar based on the lexical-functional grammar (LFG) in the form of C-structure rules (Thomann, 2002) and the role of phrase-based instruction in learning seem to be under-researched. Of particular ...  Read More

A Different Reading of The Conflict Between “Old” and “New” in Persian and Greek myths: A Critique of Barahani’s “Male History”

Vahide Sayyedi

Volume 48, Issue 4 , February 2016, , Pages 79-97

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v48i4.46860

Abstract
  1. Introduction Reza Barahani(1984), in his “Male History”, focuses on the murder of son by father, in Ferdowsi’s Rustam and Sohrab, in the canonical epic of Shahnameh. He, thence, juxtaposes it to father’s murder by son, in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex”, to conclude that in oriental culture, ...  Read More

Frailty, Thy Name Is Dramaturge: Stage Translation and Dramaturgy of a Man for All Seasons

Mohammadreza Lorzadeh; Ahmad Moinzadeh; Abbas Eslami-Rasekh

Volume 52, Issue 4 , February 2020, , Pages 79-111

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v52i4.82486

Abstract
  In a theatrical event, dramaturgy often includes drafting a play, observing the performance, modifying various performative elements, etc. In Lessingian tradition, dramaturgy needs managerial/criticizing skills, while according to Brecht, it has two textual/production facets. In the present paper, by ...  Read More

Representation of Translators’ Habitus: A Case Study of Saleh Hosseini’s Style in Persian Translation of Moby Dick; Or the Whale and To the Lighthouse

Mehrnoosh Fakharzadeh; Ahmad Dabaghzadeh Dezfouli

Volume 54, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 81-106

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v54i1.85424

Abstract
  Translator studies, as a recent subfield of Translation Studies, focuses explicitly on translators rather than translated texts since translators create texts. While translators have been studied from different cultural and cognitive perspectives, their translatorial style from sociological perspectives ...  Read More

The Effects of Norms on Translation Practice: A Case Study of Contemporary Translations of the Quran

Alireza Khazaee Farid; Khalil Ghazizadeh

Volume 48, Issue 3 , October 2015, , Pages 83-101

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v48i3.47370

Abstract
  1. IntroductionAccording to Toury (1995), translation is a norm-based behavior. In the course of their direct and indirect trainings, translators familiarize themselves with the linguistic, cultural and social norms which are used by the contemporary translators and later, as professional translators, ...  Read More

Towards a New Body: A Critical Analysis of Body Studies from Philosophy to Social Sciences and Literature

Saba Azimi; Shideh Ahmadzadeh Heravi

Volume 51, Issue 4 , February 2019, , Pages 85-118

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v51i4.79732

Abstract
  Representational studies of the body in literature are not new phenomena; however, the concerns of a new field of body studies, formed in the 1980s in sociology and becoming interdisciplinary soon after, transformed the concept of the body and the meaning of body studies. There are few studies which ...  Read More

Imagination of the Element of Soil in Andre Gide's the Immoralist

Sara Soroosh; Negar Mazari; Tahereh Khamneh Bagheri

Volume 48, Issue 1 , April 2015, , Pages 89-113

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v48i1.48273

Abstract
  This paper tends to investigate Immorality written by Andre Gide, famous French writer of the 20th century. This research studies imagines of soil element in the Immorality which is seen frequently in reverie of characters in this book. We show how author’s point of view and imagination result ...  Read More

Ideological Manipulation: A Study of the Movies Dubbed from English into Persian in the Post-Revolution Era

Salimeh Salamati; Parina Ghomi

Volume 53, Issue 3 , October 2020, , Pages 89-120

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v53i3.84065

Abstract
  Any translated content, especially audiovisual translation, is often manipulated by the dominant ideology of the target society. The present study adopts a descriptive quantitative method to examine the ideological aspects of these manipulations in the dubbed movies broadcasted from the Islamic Republic ...  Read More

Content Analysis of Books Featuring Persian Language History in Light of Emotioncy

Zahra Jahani; Shima Ebrahimi; Samira Bameshki

Volume 54, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 89-122

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v54i2.89153

Abstract
  Books written about the history of Persian language appears to focus on transferring knowledge to students only. Despite the significance of students’ needs and their individual differences as well as their personality traits, books have failed to take into account these factors. Of these considerations, ...  Read More

Emotioncy Analysis of Some Persian Neologisms Approved by Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Ghasem Modarresi

Volume 55, Issue 3 , October 2022, , Pages 91-120

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlts.2021.73265.1083

Abstract
  To date, some research has been carried out on Persian neologisms from linguistics, linguistic typology or sociolinguistics perspectives; however, research from a psycholinguistic perspective offers new insights into Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents. Employing the concept of emotioncy ...  Read More

Simulating Word Knowledge and World Knowledge Learning in Adults: The Case of English as a Foreign Language

Shaghayegh Shayesteh

Volume 55, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 93-109

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlts.2021.40539

Abstract
  Given the differences between first language and second language learning in adults, simulating first language learning can help us have an improved picture of the nature of second language learning. During first language learning, we learn the concepts in our interactions with the immediate environment. ...  Read More

An Investigation into Effects of Studying Language on Temporal Intelligence: Comparing Students of English, Persian and Arabic Languages

Fatemeh Rezaee Shervedanee; Elham Naji Meidani

Volume 55, Issue 4 , February 2023, , Pages 93-120

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlts.2021.69914.1035

Abstract
  The concept of “intelligence” lost its one-dimensional sense many years ago and is now considered a multidimensional concept that encompasses all abilities of individuals. One type of intelligence that is based on time-related individual differences is “temporal intelligence”, ...  Read More

The Relationship between Thinking Styles and Metacognitive Awareness among Iranian EFL Learners

Farrokhlagha Heidari; Zahra Bahrami

Volume 47, Issue 2 , July 2014, , Pages 95-106

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v47i2.44648

Abstract
  The present study explored the relationship between thinking styles and metacognitive awareness of Iranian EFL university students majoring in English Literature, English Translation, and English Language Teaching. In addition, the study pursued whether thinking styles could act as the predictors of ...  Read More

Audiovisual Manifestations of Hybridity in English Feature Films Dubbed into Persian

Hussein Mollanazar; Arghavan Omranipour

Volume 53, Issue 2 , July 2020, , Pages 95-126

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v53i2.83866

Abstract
  Dubbing can transfer and (re)produce manifestations of hybridity in target culture products. The multimodal system of dubbing can multiply the degree of hybridity since such manifestations may be identified at different audio-verbal, audio-nonverbal, visual-verbal, and visual-nonverbal layers. The present ...  Read More

The Role of Translation Strategies in Preventing Linguistic and Cultural Interference of Source Language to Target Language ( Case study: The Scarlet Letter Translated by Simin Daneshvar)

Fatemeh Heidary; Ali Alizadeh

Volume 47, Issue 3 , October 2014, , Pages 97-112

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v47i3.19852

Abstract
  Since different cultures have different discourses, it is not possible to pour the discourse in another discourse mold (format) without any trouble or any manipulation. This adjustment or manipulation leads to domestication. Toury and Venuti believe that the superior language imposes its features to ...  Read More