Friday sermon is a formal speech delivered during the act of worship by Muslims held before prayer. It weekly event that involves disseminating information as well persuading congregation through preaching and teaching. In sermons, rhetorical religious genre, orators usually try to convince an audience using different strategies language devices such metadiscourse. Metadiscourse strategy used a...

Abstracts are well-accepted as the clarity and fidelity of language in any article assists the readership to get the central points of the research in a brief l but effective manner. Meanwhile, as a significant feature of any piece of discourse, meta-discourse markers can effectively render article abstract texts more reader-friendly and coherent. The present study aims at investigating the ext...

Abstracts are well-accepted as the clarity and fidelity of language in any article assists the readership to get the central points of the research in a brief l but effective manner. Meanwhile, as a significant feature of any piece of discourse, meta-discourse markers can effectively render article abstract texts more reader-friendly and coherent. The present study aims at investigating the ext...

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...

According to situated cognition theory, cognitive accomplishments rely in part on structures and processes outside the individual. This article argues that interactional structures particularly those created through language use can make essential contributions to situated cognition in rational academic discourse. Most cognitive accomplishments rely in part on language, and language in use alwa...

One aspect of the relationship between meaning and interaction is explored here by taking the English particle actually, which is characterized by flexibility of syntactic position, and investigating its use in a range of interactional contexts. Syntactic alternatives in the form of clause-initial or clause-final placement are found to be selected by reference to interactional exigencies. The t...

We present in this paper a set of concepts that extend a design method issued from the Software Engineering domain, in order to take into account Human-Computer Interaction design, in particular for Augmented Reality systems. Previous works focused on the initial phases of development (i.e., Specification phases). Our efforts concentrate on the Analysis phase, into which we have introduced a ne...