For the recent decades, scholars have examined the use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs) paradigmatically through several comparative studies across varying languages and cultures. No study to date, however, has investigated a comprehensive, full-fledged comparison of the possible disparities among the native English writers (NEW), Iranian English writers (IEW), and Iranian Persian writers (IPW) ...

This research explores the extent to which a new assessments can help students to enhance their ways of contributing to explanation-seeking discourse, and also investigates the extent to which expanding contribution repertoires helps students to advance community knowledge as a whole. To this end, this study tested both pedagogical and technological supports designed to raise the level of stude...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

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...

this study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on english forspecific academic purposes (esap) reading comprehension performance ofenglish language learning (ell) university students. a reading comprehensiontest was developed and validated as the pretest and the posttest. the test, includingitems for assessing the comprehension of the students in their area of specialization,...

Delivering courses through the Internet may range from the simple electronic repository of documents up to the richest interactive tools. Many actors intervene from the teacher up to high skilled specialists and the production of the documents has a cost, not only in term of expense but mainly in term of required manpower. Documents may be categorized depending on the complexity of the work req...

Ahs t r ac t : This paper outl ines a theory of const i tuent coordination For l ,exicaI-Funetional Grammar. On this theory LFG's flat, unstructured nets are used as the functional representat ion of coordinate constructions, l"unction application is extended to sets by t rea t ing a set tbrmally am the general izat ion of its Functional clmnents. This causes properties a t t r ibuted external ...

While located at the University of Connecticut, Institute’s mission is to cooperate closely with all colleges and universities in the state to resolve state and regional water related problems, and provide a strong connection between water resource managers and the academic community. CT IWR responds to environmental issues in Connecticut through a statewide Advisory Board and through its invol...

In spite of the current need in the computational community for digital corpora in different languages with complex linguistic annotations going beyond morphosyntactic features, there is not much work within the Digital Humanities community dedicated to this task. In this paper I describe recent work on the development of a bilingual (English-Spanish) corpus consisting of original comparable an...

For successful written communication, the writer not only must engage the readers’ attention but also must sustain their interest till the end whatever the length of the communication. The subject of the communication, the information or the propositional content alone, cannot hold the reader’s attention for long. A writer’s success depends not only on what is being conveyed but also on how wel...