Seyedeh Elham Elhambakhsh
Yazd University
[ 1 ] - Telephone Conversation Closing Structure Across English and Persian
Due to the lack of paralinguistic information, politeness gains a considerable significance in telephone conversations (TCs). The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study intended to primarily investigate the fundamental closing structures ...
[ 2 ] - A Comparative Genre Analysis of Memorial Cards in English and Funeral/Memorial Announcements in Persian
As covert socio-cultural relations have significant effects on language, these norms are reflected in linguistic and generic structure of public death notices as a distinctive genre. This study intended to identify the different genres of death notices (e.g. memorial advertisements, obituaries, funeral announcements/posters, memorial cards, etc.) and to conduct a comparative genre analysis of m...
[ 3 ] - Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates
To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...
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