Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari

University of Tehran | UT · Performing Arts

In efforts to pay homage to the establishment of nationalities, there is precedence in creating a binary opposition of “us” and “them” in some narrative contexts. This discursive construction within the narrative starts with the labeling of social elements, then proceeds to generalize the negative attributions, and then culminates elaborately in ju...

This study contrasts Māzandarāni and Persian. Persian is now increasingly influencing Māzandarāni, so that a majority of Māzandarān Province is now bilingual. False-friend words refer to words in two languages seemingly similar but denoting different meanings. According to Lee (2016), we would come across false friends when a language borrows a wor...

Objectives Auditory cortex in each hemisphere mostly receives the sounds from the opposite ear. The present study aimed at the contralateral dominance of auditory brainstem response (ABR) among the ears in preterm neonates by comparing sex and gestational age. Methods Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emission (TEOAE) and Auditory Brainstem Response (A...

President Obama is famous among politicians and world leaders for being an influential orator whose speeches could attract the audience; not only ordinary people but also the other politicians and decision makers. As President Obama was continuing his push for the Iran nuclear deal, he delivered an hour speech at American University on August 5, 20...

This Article is a study of the musical tools of Ta’ziyeh and how it employs the Dastgāh and Āvāz of the Iranian traditional music, which is considered an Iranian- Shi’ite artform. What opens Ta’ziyeh for more examination today in Iran and even worldwide is its intrinsic dependence to musical elements as well as utilization of the two entangled comp...

Objectives: To adapt the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral screen (ECAS) English version into Persian. Methods: The ECAS test was adapted and implemented to 30 ALS patients and 31 healthy volunteers in Tehran, Iran. The ECAS results were compared to MoCA and ALS-FRS-r, the other standard tools to determine whether the translated version is reliabl...

Within translation subjects, poetry translation is one of the most controversial issues caused by the existing conflict between form and content. A poetry translator’s main concern is whether to prefer the form over the content or vice versa. In translation studies, literal translation prioritizes the form while free translation concentrates on the...

The growth in the elderly population has posed a social, economic and health challenge for the twenty-first century. Objective: Aging is often characterized by changes in cognitive functions which affect the receptive and expressive capabilities of language. Since language plays a significant role in human life, we evaluate the existence of age-r...

The aim of this paper is to present pioneering plan in the field of applied linguistics to use in the writing of specialized texts, including engineering sciences. After reviewing the text of "2800 Code", the authors noticed the existence of different linguistic ambiguities in the text that influence the interpretation of the context.

Translators always seek to find the best equivalents for each word, sentence or phrase in the target language (TL) in order to have the most accurate and meaningful translation of the text. Generally, a translator's main concern is whether to prefer the form over the content or vice versa. In translation studies, literal translation prioritizes the...

Taking into account the fact that Iran is prone to earthquakes, and due to the implementation of an integrated and monitorable plan for the entire country, engineers have access to a regulation on "designed earthquake-resistant buildings," which is the basis for their work. The clear and unambiguous expression of any law is one of the most importan...

According to the fact that Iran is located in earthquake prone region and due to the creation of integrated and supervised scheme throughout the country, a code for "Designing Earthquake Resistant Buildings", also known as "2800 standard", is provided for engineers, used as the basis of their structural design. One of the most important principles...

Gorani is one of the Northwestern Iranian languages spoken in Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces of Iran, as well as a part of Iraqi Kurdistan. This language is highly endangered due to the heavy influence of its neighboring commonly spoken languages such as Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish. Gorani has maintained some very interesting grammatical featu...

The task of breaking bad news (BBN) may be improved by incorporating simulation with art-based teaching methods. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of an integrating simulation with art-based teaching strategies, on fellows’ performance regarding BBN, in Iran. The study was carried out using quasi-experimental methods, interrupte...

Introduction: Communication skill (CS) has been regarded as one of the fundamental competencies for medical and other health care professionals. Student's attitude toward learning CS is a key factor in designing educational interventions. The original CSAS, as positive and negative subscales, was developed in the UK; however, there is no scale to...

The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks's (1977) f...

The current study explores the conceptual schemas in the complex verbs of Mazandarani language and compares them with Persian, within the framework of cognitive semantics and Johnson's schematic model (1987). The study is based on a questionnaire provided by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. A total of ten native speakers have been in...

The current study explores the conceptual schemas in the complex verbs of Mazandarani language and compares them with Persian, within the framework of cognitive semantics and Johnson's schematic model (1987).This study is designed on the basis of the questionnaire provided by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. In this paper, the author...

Less than two centuries since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century in America, feminism expanded into myriad branches: liberal feminism, socialist feminism, and (most recently) postcolonial feminism, among other things. In Iran, feminism as a collective political movement never came to fruition; however, some have, in different times, advoca...

Introduction: Simulation plays an important role in integrated learning of communication skills. Communication skills are known as the heart and art of medicine. Although, designing high-impact learning experiences in simulated environments are essential elements in the process of communication training, it has encountered some challenges. Art-base...

Given that today the number of post-modern works in world’s cinema is growing and is unavoidable, addressing this issue to find common points between these works to achieve the general rules, gets necessary so that a structured path for making this kind of films becomes possible. In this paper, we introduce post-modern films which their narrative s...

Nobel Prize‐winning Guatemalan novelist, poet, diplomat, playwright, and journalist Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) is one of the pioneering authors who established Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture, as well as drawing attention to the importance of indigenous cultures in literature. The sociopolitical interes...

Background: Categorization is one of the basic cognitive skills in human beings. In fact, it can organize knowledge and arrange human behavior. Objectives: The present study deals with the organization of conceptual knowledge by investigating and studying the ways in which different semantic domains are categorized. Materials and Methods: In the pr...

Since Aristotle’s response to Plato’s attack on poetic imitation as being twice removed from reality, the concept of mimesis has pervaded the drama. Aristotle’s all arts, epic, tragic, comic and dithyrambic, regardless of their different media, subject mat...

Since the dawn of Renaissance, visual composition has always been a major case of discussion in the visual arts. But when it comes to the art of cinema, it will not be exaggerating to call it an oppressed issue. Bordwell, Staiger & Thompson (1985) are among the scholars who cared about this issue and allocated a part of their book, The Classical Ho...

Background and Aim: Hearing impaired students experience binaural hearing like normal peers and school age is challenging time for using dichotic listening. Lack of research was found on relationship of Persian hearing impaired children with central auditory processing (CAP). One of the aims of this study was a comparison between Persian dichotic d...

Exploring the plays of Akbar Radi in 1990s leads us to the element of dream as one of the main elements in his the narration pattern as this element is completely influential in dramatic actions. But the main attitude of this study is exploring the two works The Low Pass of Public Drinking Place and Khanomche and Moonlight based on the effect of dr...

Background: Aphasia is a language disorder caused by left hemisphere damage. For treatment of aphasia, in some of therapeutic approaches, the right hemisphere (RH) abilities, such as, emotional perception, is used for stimulation of the language process in the left hemisphere. The aim of this study is to investigate emotional word repetition in ap...

Considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) should face difficulties in this task. Therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from TBI. Among different...

Objective: Studies have shown the presence of narrative discourse difficulties in persons with Traumatic Brain Injury, even those who do not suffer from aphasia. Yet, there still exist inconsistencies among results of different studies, in particular in microlinguistic level. Moreover, limited languages are studied in this regard. So this study aim...

One of the focal points in film narration is focusing on narrator as the main carrier of the drama. Yet the fl exibility of the principles of classic cinema which determine the dramatic position of the narrator permits no possibility of transferring the point of view. Accordingly, the narrator remains unchangeable forever. But when we look at the las...

Introduction The relationship between handicaps because of voice disorders and temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) severity was examined. Method Fifty-two Persian women with temporomandibular disorder (TMD) were examined by two dentists in separate sessions and the assessment protocol of the Dentistry Clinic of Tehran University of Medical Sciences...

Background and Aim: Children with auditory processing disorders and impaired phonological working memory have difficulty in storing an accurate phonological representation of speech.Therefore, it is highly important to assess phonological working memory in this population. One of the methods in assessing phonological working memory is to use a non-...

The purpose of this study was to adapt and determine reliability, validity, and responsiveness of voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL) for Persian. A total of 300 patients with voice disorders participated in the study. Also, 116 people without any voice disorders volunteered to participate in the study as a control group. All participants filled...

The purpose of this research is initially to investigate and delineate the formation process of the irreversible binominals in Persian, as an active word formation process in this language, which has constantly been regarded from different approaches by Iranian and foreign linguists, Using the achievements of cognitive linguistics. It's worth menti...

In this article, we have introduced the first parallel corpus of Persian with more than 10 other European languages. This article describes primary steps toward preparing a Basic Language Resources Kit (BLARK) for Persian. Up to now, we have proposed morphosyntactic specification of Persian based on EAGLE/MULTEXT guidelines and specific resources o...

Background: Pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts that provides accurate interpretation of intentions. The occurrence of the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. Methods: Since the objective of this study was to asses...

New Historicists view history as a text through whose discontinuities and breaks the repressed and suppressed voices find ways of articulation. Likewise, a literary text, in its underlying layers, alludes to the historical conditions at the time of its production. In some cases, as in Bahram Beyzaie's works, however, the author intentionally uses t...

This article seeks to analyze the verbal interactions in Oleanna within Geoffrey Leech‘s Model of Politeness [1983] in order to show the gradual occurrence of exchange of power and show how this conflict in the academic discourse of the play takes place. The Model of politeness is applied to impositives, commissives and expressive speech acts, to...

Background and Aim: The ability of conversational repair is a subset of pragmatic language. When the listener does not understand the speaker's intention, and the speaker cannot find a way of repairing the conversation to make his/her massage clear, communication will fail. This study aims to examine and compare the conversational repair skill in t...

The ability of conversational repair is a subset of pragmatic language which is used for clarification of messages in communication failures. This skill makes speakers able to monitor and repair of their conversations and thus, helps listeners to obtain a better understanding of unclear messages .If listener does not understand speaker's intention...

One of the important issues in the study of grammar is the study of the structure and the functions of different sentences of a language, as well as describing the similarities and differences between them. This article aims to study the exclamative sentences of Persian according to a corpus and within a typological framework based on the study don...

This study attempts to evaluate one of the language use differen ces among women and men according to the Dominance Theory. The main purpose of the study is thus to investigate speech interruption as the part icipatory dominance factor based on the Dominance Theory in the Persian communi ty and three affecting factors on interruption (direct st...

This Research, Entitled Study of Wuxia as an Aesthetic and Economic Phenomenon in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, examines the success of Wuxia Films in world cinema after 2000. This Genre since 1920s till now is working and faced with too many troubles in these years. Wuxia is derived from the Chinese words wu denoting militaristic or martial qualiti...

Introduction: In speech therapy, treatment efficacy includes 3 specific fields as treatment effectiveness, efficiency and effects. Treatment efficiency compares two approaches or more with each other. The aim of this study was to compare of two approaches: general language stimulation and developmental-descriptive approach. Materials and Methods: I...

Dictionaries are regarded as the basic criteria in language teaching and research; therefore, they are expected to be free from analytic fallacies. However, it seems that there are some inconsistencies in the definition of the morphological units in Persian dictionaries. In this article, echo reduplications (or Etbâ’) are studied in the text of Log...

Background and Aim: Phonological working memory is an important factor in speech and language development and the treatment of related disorders. Assessment of this kind of memory is based on non word repetition. The aim of this study was providing a non word repetition test to examine the capacity of phonological working memory and determining its...

Introduction: Pronouncing phonemes is one of phoneme awareness skills that influences on reading and writing skills. The development of this skill stats in ages 5-6, but doesn't evolve in these ages. Many variables (the number of phonemes, the position of phonemes in word and the type of phonemes) may influence on this skill. In this study, the abi...

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. He studied English (BA, 1996) and Linguistics (MA, 1999; PhD, 2004) at Allameh Tabataba'I University, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran, as well as teaching at Tehran University.

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari was born in 1974 in Tehran. He studied English (B.A., 1996) and Linguistics (M.A., 1999; Ph.D., 2004) at Allameh Tabataba'I University, Tehran. He is now a member of the department of Iranology and Linguistics at the Center for the great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran.

It is well known by every student of Iranian, that the Samanid dynasty (10th-11th centuries) contributed greatly to the development and empowerment of the Persian language. Despite a considerable amount of publications on this subject, however, to the best of my knowledge, none of them has enjoyed a linguistic basis.1 When we talk about the history...

Introduction: Idiopathic Parkinson is an age-related, common progressive neurodegenerative disease whose probable causes are yet unknown. Also, it is not yet clear whether specific language disturbances form part of Parkinson's disease (PD) cognitive profile. This disease leaves several impacts on the speech of its patients, many of such impacts ha...