This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

Research Article (RA) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. However, authors’ identity in RAs has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. This paper reports a corpus analysis of Iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in RAs in the field of applied linguistics. The corpus comprised 30 RAs (200,000 word...

This paper retrieves the keywords of “linguistics and counts relevant articles Modern Foreign Languages in past ten years from database China Knowledge Network (CNKI) analyzes by using CiteSpace, a visualization software. Based on analysis, it can be found that linguistics research has basically formed development trend application-oriented interdisciplinary intersectional years, among which ap...

Critical applied linguistics is a field of inquiry and practice that can be understood in several ways. It brings critical focus—where the as social critique rather than thinking—to linguistic work. A central goal to connect questions domination (contingent contextual effects power), disparity (inequitable access material cultural goods), discrimination (ideological discursive frames exclusion)...

In this article, the researcher discusses present verbs. Present verbs are typically employed in simple tense to describe events that occur on a regular basis present. This article use of twelve news articles CNN.com. The goal research is determine how many used CNN.com and which most often utilized. I chose because one largest mass media world. Mass was first initiated by Ted Turner Reese Scho...

commissioned in 1929 by the government of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to research the language varieties spoken by Zimbabwean natives. His work, which was premised on the quest for standardised, monolithic and homogeneous linguistic categories, marked the genesis of language politics in Zimbabwe. The Dokean legacy left an indelible mark on the terrain of language treatment and lang...

This article asks what applied linguistics can learn from related disciplines with regard to the collection, analysis and representation of qualitative interviews. It assesses the contributions of qualitative sociology, anthropology, discursive psychology and outlines four ‘discourse dilemmas’ which might provide the basis for a more critical and reflective dimension to the use of qualitative i...