majid fouladiyan; hasan rezaeebahrabad
Abstract
Egocentricity is known as a historical feature in Iranian's collective psychology, but according to the theorist of this theory, such a feature exists in Iranian's community, even nowadays and its negative consequences are still unavoidable. Therefore, it makes sense to search for current scientific ...
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Egocentricity is known as a historical feature in Iranian's collective psychology, but according to the theorist of this theory, such a feature exists in Iranian's community, even nowadays and its negative consequences are still unavoidable. Therefore, it makes sense to search for current scientific methods in order to find effective factors in creating and existence of such a phenomenon as well as theorizing and evaluating its historical effects; because most of the contemporary historic failures in Iran can be related to this issue. Hence the main question of this research would be: What are effective factors in Iranians' Egocentricity? In order to answer this question, we have tried to get to a valid evaluation through the secondary analysis of data gathered in Tehran, and design and test a rhetoric model based on applied indexes in mentioned evaluation. The study population in this research has been1256 people who were chosen systematically. Results show that the Egocentricity in more than 15% of the interviewees has been too little or a little; more than 44% in average; and more than 40% too much or more. Also, the multiple correlation rates equaled 0.446, T square as 0.119, and justified rate as 0.196. It shows that about 20% of the Egocentricity variance is determined by current variables. The fatalism variable shows the highest effective rate as 0.276 and social alienating and powerlessness follow that respectively. All three mentioned variables (independent) have a positive significance in Egocentricity (dependent). It means that increasing each of the mentioned three variables will increase the level of Egocentricity in people.
Reza Pishghadam; Atena Attaran
Abstract
Culturology of language along with a historical analysis of it can lead to a better understanding of a culture, and may provide the opportunity to change or cultivate the wrong beliefs systems of a society. In fact, any culture can be cultivated by a deep understanding of its contexts, speech events, ...
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Culturology of language along with a historical analysis of it can lead to a better understanding of a culture, and may provide the opportunity to change or cultivate the wrong beliefs systems of a society. In fact, any culture can be cultivated by a deep understanding of its contexts, speech events, and social conventions. The reason for this is that language and culture cannot be entirely separated and they are interwoven. One of the commonly used concepts in Iranian culture is “qesmat” and its related collocations which needs detailed investigation of its roots and origin as well as its utilization. The article thus aimed at having a linguistic-historic look toward fatalism and analyzes it based on aspect hypothesis. In doing so, a total of 280 contexts were recorded in natural situations, transcribed, and later analyzed. The data reflected the attitude of people in different age groups, levels of education, and occupations toward fatalism. Hymes’ model of SPEAKING was then applied to scrutinize the aforementioned attitude. Moreover, the concept of "qesmat" and its related collocations were discussed. Through culturology of “qesmat”, a new notion under the title of "fatalism cultuling" was introduced, and “qesmat” was found to be a common feature of both "fatalism cultuling" and "indirectness cultuling". The results also reported the fact that there was a positive relationship between age and fatalism; however, this relationship became negative when it came to level of education.
