The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

! Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul.! First unveiled on 12/5/98 the bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page. This rectangular flag ...

Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

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the patient’s story, and enjoy the interaction with patients and families. They are also part of the full gamut of life experiences and events, often in dramatic fashion. Smithers noted that “opportunities for the close observation of the great variety of men and women under conditions of stress, suffering, relief and bereavement has been theirs; indeed they have seen more of the triumph of the...

Research on EFL doctoral thesis writing is booming. The literature indicates a link between and identity formation. Despite the call for scholarly attention writers, writers of theses in English as Foreign language (EFL) settings have not been well represented previous studies. Moreover, although writer has proposed consisting four aspects, most research mainly adopted corpus approach to discus...

The purpose of the current study was to examine frequently used boosters in academic articles written by Native (NESs) and Non-native (NNESs) Speakers English (Turkish researchers) field Language Teaching. Investigating whether differences exist use these markers between NESs NNESs’ another aim study. Within this purpose, data collected from one hundred (NESs= 50, NNESs= 50 articles) published ...