Bahram Kazemian
@iaut.ac.ir
Department of English, Islamic Azad University.
Bahram Kazemian is a Ph.D. candidate and was born in Tabriz City, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran in 1979. He obtained his B.A. in English Translation and his M.A. in ELT from Islamic Azad University. Currently, he is the managing director of Unique Language Center. He has more than fifteen-year experience in TEFL at different language institutes in Tabriz. His major thrust areas of interest and specialties are Grammatical Metaphor and Transitivity in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices, Appraisal Framework in SFL, TEFL, TESOL and Metadiscourse Markers (Hedges, Boosters, etc.). He has published more than 25 articles and book reviews in international flagship journals plus one book. His recent book reviews (6) were published by De Gruyter (Intercultural Pragmatics), Routledge, and Elsevier (System). He serves as a member of Editorial Boards and Reviewers for various journals.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. candidate in English Language Teaching.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Language and Linguistics, Education, Social Sciences
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Mahdi Derakhshani, Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer, Bahram Kazemian, and Shafigeh Mohammadian
Academy Publication
Language and politics go hand in hand and learning and comprehending political genre is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting political discourse in any text/talk. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Fairclough’s CDA and Rhetoric, the current study aims at investigating Donald Trump’s First Speech, from the point of frequency and functions of some rhetorical strategies (Parallelism, Anaphora and the Power of Three, Antithesis and Expletive, etc.), Nominalization, Passivization, We-groups and Modality as well as Lexical and Textual Analysis, presented to the UN delivered on Sep. 19, 2017. Specifically, the study seeks to determine: (1) how President Trump succeeded in conveying his notions and assumptions to his intended audience, and in convincing and negotiating, (2) how he attempted to explicitly and implicitly pass his attitudes on his targets, and (3) how those orientations, intended notions and assumptions were seamlessly presented to his addressees in discoursal and lexico-grammatical levels; (4) and finally in this underlying trend how he achieved his own ends. The results of the study hope to enhance reading comprehension and writing in academic registers for EFL/ESL students.
Bahram Kazemian, Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer, and Shafigeh Mohammadian
Journal of Language Teaching and Research Academy Publication
Drawing upon the recent theoretical framework of Burkean concept of identification (ID), the current study aims at probing the interaction of content and form in two letters penned by Iran’s Supreme Leader and addressed to the Youth on Jan. and Nov. 2015. To this end, the study seeks (i) to determine a role ID takes in the conveyance of intended assumptions to the targeted readers; and (ii) to observe if the writer’s objectives, i.e. to identify himself with the readers and to realize his politically-religiously-infused creeds, result in success or failure; moreover, (iii) it seeks to determine how he achieved his end to attenuate the impacts of blazing inferno of Islamophobia and anti-Islam sentiments in his addressees. The whole corpus (about 3000 words), in light of van Dijk’s Socio-cognitive approach, is critically perused to seek out contextually-coded expressions. The study tries to set out a manner in which political text/talk could be analyzed rhetorically employing ID concept. It was found that ID as a two-way process is a key component for both parties to identify with. It makes the readers align themselves with the writer and helps the writer to associate with the readers and accomplish his goals.
Bahram Kazemian and Somayyeh Hashemi
Academy Publication
In the light of Halliday's Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis, the major objectives of this study are to investigate and analyze Barack Obama's 2012 five speeches, which amount to 19383 words, from the point of frequency and functions of Nominalization, Rhetorical strategies, Passivization and Modality, in which we can grasp the effective and dominant principles and tropes utilized in political discourse. Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis frameworks based on a Hallidayan perspective are used to depict the orator's deft and clever use of these strategies in the speeches which are bound up with his overall political purposes. The results represent that nominalization, parallelism, unification strategies and modality have dominated in his speeches. There are some antithesis, expletive devices as well as passive voices in these texts. Accordingly, in terms of nominalization, some implications are drawn for political writing and reading, for translators and instructors entailed in reading and writing pedagogy.