Mehdi Rostami

[ 1 ] - A Comparative Study of Metaphorical Markers in Academic Research Articles

Although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., Glucksberg & Keysar 1993; Skorczynska & Deignan, 2006; Sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in Iran. The gap envisagedhas ...