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Abstract
Funeral and mourning rites capture so many aspects of the Iranian traditional and religious rituals and provide
members of society with cultural tools of lamenting the dead. The study presents socio-cultural considerations in connection with
social space and action, linguistic interactions, and semiotic resources of rituals used in mourning ceremonies for Shiite Muslims
in the city of Nur, Iran. The paper relies on a mediated discourse analysis approach as a theoretical framework from which to
develop a semiotic analysis of the linguistic practices and mediational means that appear in the mourning events. To this end, I
shall draw upon video and audio recorded interactions of mourning rituals personally collected at funerals. The paper demonstrates
that while mourning rituals are culturally and religiously framed in Shiite Muslims, one must also include the social space, the
discourse cycle, the trajectories of the material resource of individual’s historical bodies and of text.
期刊介绍:
The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the preeminent journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). ARAL is a peer reviewed journal that promotes scholarly discussion and contemporary understandings of language-related matters with a view to impacting on real-world problems and debates. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research on language/s in educational, professional, institutional and community settings. ARAL welcomes national and international submissions presenting research related to any of the major sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics as well as transdisciplinary studies. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: · Analysis of discourse and interaction · Assessment and evaluation · Bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual education · Corpus linguistics · Cognitive linguistics · Language, culture and identity · Language maintenance and revitalization · Language planning and policy · Language teaching and learning, including specific languages and TESOL · Pragmatics · Research design and methodology · Second language acquisition · Sociolinguistics · Language and technology · Translating and interpreting.