In dramatizing the conditions of Irish society Brian Friel is keenly aware of the close relations among language, discourse, myth, politics and history. He is mostly concerned with the colonial and post-colonial contexts in which language and cultural clashes are dominant factors. The writers offer an analysis of his drama in terms of the significance of forms of capital in them. Friel's theatre in its social dimension is one of societal transformations, of transitions. What is the modality of cultural changes at such moments of transition? This book is an attempt to provide a sort of answer...

This five-chapter book elaborates on teaching practices used by the chosen ten instructors in teaching translation at Islamic Azad University-South Tehran Branch, and then examines the consistency between teaching practices used by the ten instructors and the attitudes of fifty students towards teaching translation by close observation checklist and two questionnaires for students (i.e., Likert Scale Questionnaire) and teachers (i.e., Open-ended Questionnaire). Mixed methods design of the study used a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data to find answers to the three research...