Causative constructions are of great importance in typological studies of language. Therefore, the basic concern of the authors in this article has been primarily with the typology of causative constructions in Persian based on Comrie’s typological framework. On the other hand, causation plays a central role in everyday human experience. So, it can be considered as one of the integral parts of human cognition or according to Lakoff a notion that exists in our mind (thought). The results indicate that Comrie’s classification of causatives (morphological, lexical and analytic) is functionable in Persian. Moreover, the analysis reveals that in Persian, in addition to three types introduced by Comrie, there is another causative referred to
Language as a Puppet of Politics: A Study of McCain’s and Obama’s Speech on Iraq War, a CDA Approach
Sahar Bahrami-Khorshid, Ferdows Aghagolzadeh
Journal PapersInternational Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory , Volume 2 , Issue 1, 2009 January , {Pages }
Abstract
On Tuesday, 4 November 2008 one of the most significant events of the world will happen: the presidential election of the US 1 The 44th president of the US will enter the White House on 20th January 2009. This election is in fact a competition between two main parties: republican and democratic. This paper studies the speeches of the nominees of these two parties: John McCain and Barack Obama. We selected one of their speeches on a similar topic (“Iraq War”) and incorporated their states in the framework of CDA introduced by Norman Fairclough. The results show that the two senators take two opposite strands on the same event. They use language as a means of promoting their own social, political, personal interests. Language is an effect
This research is concerned with the coding of causation, a topic that raises so many issues central to cognitive linguistics. Causation plays a central role in everyday human experience. So it can be considered as one of the integral parts of human cognition or according to Layoff a notion that exists in our thought. The present paper tries to study the relationship between the formalists' analysis of causality and the cognitivists' model, and also to explain how causatives are interpreted in the cognitive approach. The results indicate that the cognitive approach provides a relatively straightforward solution to the problems raised by formal approaches (eg case grammar), since it does not assume that situations in the real world are charac