Hajar Ghaffarpour

[ 1 ] - An Analysis of English and Persian Academic Written Discourses in Human Sciences: An Evolutionary Account

The present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between English and Persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of Applied Linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. The evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. Seventy eight r...