This article intended to investigate whether the gender-preferential linguistic elements found by Argomon, Koppel, Fine and Shimoni (2003) show the same gender-linked frequencies in applied linguistics research papers written by non-native speakers of English. In so doing, a sample of 32 articles from different journals was collected and the proportion of the targeted features to the whole numb...

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences in using adjectives between native speakers and Chinese EFL learners at beginner intermediate levels, with research data taken from three sub-written corpora ICNALE, written corpus A2 B1 levels. coded by UAM Corpus tool, version 3.2. result presented two aspects, namely, overall frequencies specific overused underused wordings. reveals tha...

extremes and produced a story which is vivid, factual and Convincing. The theme?that of the cause and course of alcoholism ln a personality of refinement?is handled with insight and knowledge, sympathy and toleration, and built up without either sentimentality or sensationalism. Events move quickly but carry conviction, the style is impersonal and the descriptions succinct. To sticklers, the us...

According to the Symantec and F-Secure threat reports, mobile malware development in 2013 and 2014 has continued to focus almost exclusively (∼99%) on the Android platform. Malware writers are applying stealthy mutations (obfuscations) to create malware variants, thwarting detection by signature based detectors. In addition, the plethora of more sophisticated detectors making use of static anal...

The study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. The present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. The discussion section of 60 political science articles, with corpora around 253,063 words were investigated in three aspects of structure, form, and function of lexical bundles. The p...

Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description, this study explored the use of epistemic stance adverbs in academic essays written by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners. Follow...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

citation analysis is one of the most common techniques of bibliometrics in which the governing rules between the citing document and the cited document are studied. in other words, citation analysis is mainly based on who cites to whom.the aim of this research is to determine citation behavior of writers of m.sc thesis at agriculture field, and to specify behavioral patterns, informational them...

This study explores the relationship between writing strategies and cohesion of writing, it compares how an ESL learner a native speaker English use to organize their written narratives. A text analysis demonstrates that used fewer connectives than English, produced less cohesive narrative. Next, taking qualitative approach, differences in products are related writers’ uses different processes....

This study aims to compare verb variation and the functions of hedges used in English scientific research articles written by native speakers (NS) non-native from Indonesia (NNS). The data were collected a corpus 30 international journal articles. analysis was conducted quantitatively using normalization system statistical tests determine frequency distribution lexical verbs qualitatively Palme...