the purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of personal and impersonal metadiscourse (md) by persian- and english-speaking writers in academic writing. for this purpose, 80 abstracts were selected (40 written by persian-speaking writers and 40 by english-speaking ones) and analyzed. these abstracts were selected from endocrinology and metabolism journals published during 2010 to...

This paper is about the impersonal passive construction of which modern Irish, a VSO language, has two forms. The impersonal passive form occurs with all verbs of Irish, across all tenses, whether intransitive or transitive. In the second form, the impersonal passive form is to be found productively with the substantive verb (one of the two verbs of ‘to be’ in Irish) across all tenses. It does ...

This paper investigates the role of moral norms as a social institution in anonymous interactions trust games. We argue that morality functions norm and therefore comes with specific punishments rewards. Since these incentives are confounded material game, an augmented version game is used, which communication without consequences possible. conduct experiment offers participants opportunity to ...

The young Edmund Husserl stressed that the success of his philosophy hinged upon ability to determine subject and predicate impersonal propositions their expressions, such as ‘It is raining’. This essay accordingly investigates tenability Husserl’s early thought, by executing first study analysis from late 1890s. examination reshapes our understanding inception phenomenology in two ways. First,...

Institutional identity as a concept in CDA is a field of study that deals with the identities that individuals in institutions obtain, one that merits deep research attention. News interviews as institutional instances can be analyzed based on the impersonal structures because interviewees see themselves as part of the institution and they may not take responsibility when they encounter problem...

extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis coverin...