The present paper is based on a research conducted to investigate how English newspaper editorials in Iran express their political ideologies in the ninth presidential election. All texts usually encode the ideological position of their producers, but they are not always explicit for all readers. They need to be revealed and unmasked, so the use of critical discourse analysis in this regard is to examine the ideologies underlying the texts. In the methodological framework of Van Dijk's model, the ideology carrying categories were identified, scrutinized and compared in the clause structure of the editorials in four English newspapers in Iran. It was generally found that the relationships of the newspapers with the institutions, political parties and government influenced the way the editors conveyed their ideas and thoughts about the candidates in the presidential election.
Within the framework of the systematic functional grammar (SFG), Matthiessen (2004) has provided an analysis of the word/element order according to which word/element order in a clause is decided by experiential, interpersonal and textual metafunctions. In this study which has been conducted aiming at the description and analysis of the word/element order in a simple Persian clause, we have sought to describe and analyze the sequence of the main elements in a Persian active simple declarative clause within Matthiessen ( 2004)'s metafunctional model. In fact, through evidence from Persian language, i.e. samples derived from Persian texts and also other Persian researchers' works, we have sought to demonstrate how the three experiential, interpersonal and textual metafunctions are involved in determining the order of the main elements in an active simple declarative clause in Persian. The results of this study show that the "basic" order of the main elements in a Persian simple clause and specifically single-Complement clause is in line with both experiential and interpersonal metafunctions and any type of the movement of the aforementioned elements in an active simple declarative clause in Persian language is explained with the help of the mechanisms of textual metafunction.
This article describes 'word order' in Turkish on the basis of twenty three word order criteria which have been utilized in Dryer (1992Dryer ( , 2014 to distinguish OV languages from VO languages. The study shows that given twenty relevant criteria in Turkish, this language behaves predominantly like a strong OV language, with a small number of strong VO languages' characteristics typologizing Turkish as a VO language. Being predominantly a strong OV language, Turkish is a left-branching type of language, the behaviour that bears complete consistency with Dryer (1992)'s 'Branching Direction Theory'.Keywords: Word Order; Correlation Pairs; Typology; Turkish.
Introduction'Word order' 1 , or specifically speaking 'constituent order' 2 , is a particularly important typological 3 parameter (see Comrie, 1989: 42 & 86), hence 'word order typology' or 'constituent order typology'. According to Comrie (ibid: 86), word order typology, mainly through Greenberg (1966b)'s seminal article, i.e. some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements, has played a major role in the recent development of language typology. Typologizing languages in terms of their word order characteristics is conducted via some parameters which Comrie (ibid: 87-91) has sorted out into two sets:I. major ones: (1) the relative order of subject, verb, and object, (2) word order within the noun phrase (the relative order of adjective (A) and noun (N); the order of head noun (N) and relative clause (Rel) in the relative clause construction; the relative order of possessive (genitive) (G) and head noun (N)), (3) type of adposition: preposition or posposition. II. less central ones: (1) the order of auxiliary verbs and main verbs, (2) the order of the comparative and the standard of comparison, (3) the order of affix and stem: suffixing or prefixing. As Comrie (ibid: 92) has noted, though most of the above-listed parameters are logically independent of one another, it turns out to be the case that there are many statistically significant correlations that can be drawn among the mentioned parameters, and it is one of Greenberg (ibid)'s more specific merits to have established so many of these correlations. 4 Parallel with Comrie (ibid.)'s view on there being many statistically significant correlations among various word order parameters, Dryer (1992), in his paper entitled as the Greenbergian word order correlations, has substantiated the correlation between the order of certain pairs of grammatical elements and the order of verb and object. To refer to the certain pairs of grammatical elements, Dryer (ibid: 82) has coined the term 'correlation pairs' and defined it as follows: "If the order of a pair of elements X and Y exhibits a correlation with the order of verb and object respectively, then I will refer to the ordered pair
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.