This article takes up the important issue of distinguishing popular from professional texts using economic texts as the object of analysis. It reports on a limited corpus study of authentic texts produced by native English professionals and published for native English readers, but differing in the nature of intended audience (lay/expert). Economics/electronic money transactions constituted the...

over the past one hundred and fifty years, due to a huge number of translations from different languages into persian, certain norms of language use have changed and certain others are in the process of changing. as one of the most frequent syntactic properties of most languages, especially english, the nominal style is a most likely candidate for transfer through translation into persian, a la...

Our purpose in this study was to more deeply understand the ways which text-based, sociohistorically situated narratives can be optimally used for promoting reading comprehension. In particular, we sought experiences and perspectives of young readers from diverse backgrounds (N = 24) as they engaged with science discovery (i.e., stories by or about scientists process discovery), have been shown...

A study exploring texts at different academic levels. Abstract 26 27 In this study we propose an integrated method to automatically evaluate very brief 28 summaries (around 50 words) using the computational tool Latent Semantic Analysis 29 (LSA). The method proposed is based on a regression equation calculated with a corpus 30 of a hundred summaries (the training sample), and is validated on a ...

This study focuses on the impact of linguistic markers of coherence on the comprehension of expository discourse. The impact of such markers on comprehension (i.e. off-line) is a highly controversial topic in current studies, especially for connectives for which a facilitating as well as an interfering role has been demonstrated. As a matter of fact, it seems that connectives facilitate the com...

Repetition is the process of repeating a word stated earlier in text either same form or with some modifications. It one key signaling devices available for setting up relations and, thereby, patterning discourse text. This study textual analysis role that repetition plays English texts. aims at investigating different roles these Moreover, it finding out if contributes to making explicit logic...