Journal of Culture-Communication Studies
A Study on Membership Categorization of BBC Persian TV: (A Discourse Analysis Approach towards Pargar Programs, focusing on Religious Subjects)

Mohammad Mehdi Forghani; Hossein Basirian Jahromi; Sara Mahdavi

Volume 16, Issue 29 , June 2015, , Pages 73-99

Abstract
  Membership Categorization, first explored as a term by Harvey Sacks in the mid-1960s. The primary efforts of Sacks led to present the Membership Categorization Devices (or MCDs), in which the categories and their characteristics introduced. This article, studies the procedures of Membership Categorization ...  Read More

Functionality and Position of Cognitive Dissonance Theory Among Blogger Journalists

Mohammad Mahdi Forghani Athena Ebrahimi Moayyer; 00 00

Volume 15, Issue 25 , June 2014, , Pages 73-88

Abstract
  This paper tries to answer the questions whether it is possible to discover the cognitive dissonance among blogger journalists through their blogs and whether blogger journalists are suffering from cognitive dissonance. Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory is applied in this paper. Following up these ...  Read More

Presenting a model for Critical Discourse Analysis of Movies

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Volume 12, Issue 16 , May 2012, , Pages 129-157

Abstract
  The Growth of dominance of images in this era and the dominance of ‘visual culture’, cause analyzing picture as well as visual text to be more important. The main concern of this paper is to mention the theoretical complexity of the images analysis for presenting a model for critical discourse ...  Read More