the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, si...

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

abstract the present thesis studies different question sentences in persian and russian languages comparatively. sentence is a syntactic unit that matches a lot of dimensions together. sentence includes syntactic structure definite meaning & concept and different applied demotions. in applied, question and imperative sentences based on speakers aim. predicative sentences state a kind of info...

toury (1978:200) believes that translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. being polite while asking for something takes place differently in different cultures and languages, therefore various strategies may be applied for making requests and also translation of them in order not to disturb or threaten the face or better to sa...

rested on sociocultural theory (sct), this study attempted to examine the effect of written corrective feedback (wcf) followed by producing written languaging on developing writing accuracy over new tasks. to this aim, two intact iranian efl classes at the low-intermediate level were randomly assigned to two experimental groups: direct (n = 25) and indirect (n = 25). both groups wrote on a numb...

بر اساس لوینسون (2010) پیوستگی یکی از مهم ترین مفاهیم تحلیل گفتمان است، که روابط معنایی موجود در متن را نشان می دهد. لوینسون (همان) انواع ابزارهای پیوستگی را طبق طبقه بندی دولی و لوینسون (2001) معرفی کرده است. براساس این طبقه بندی ابزارهای پیوستگی به شش دسته تقسیم می شوند: عبارت های توصیفی (descriptive expressions)، همانندی (identity)، روابط واژگانی (lexical relations)، الگوهای صرفی- نحوی (morp...

the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...