Abstract

Communicational and international developments have different aspects in today’s world so that some terms like “Internationalization,” “Liberalization,” “Universalization,” “Westernization,” “Deterritorialization” find interferences in social sciences and humanities studies. But these terms can generally be distinguished by two different categories of study as some experts have emphasized that the above developments are in the process while the others considered them on the project. The main problem is that how we can find out the focal point of both studies through which the accuracy of these claims to be verified to know whether contemporary changes and evolutions are formed in a process or a project. It seems that the focal point in the sphere of both claims is the issue of “identity” since both spheres agree that the concept of “identity” has passed a series of changes and developments, although each one renders the path and goal of “identity” changes by its own specific interpretations. In this article, we claim that using linguistic approach we are able to review the developments and evolutions’ flow of identity in the present era and thereby it can be found that the developments in information and communication would lead to creating a process in the context of Globalization or a project on Universalization. The assumption of this study is that by explanation of the above-mentioned situation, we can see that based on the linguistic approach, the process of making identity is “context-based” and “conditional” as opposed to a project view formation and relative continuity of identification process would generally be subject to the condition.