This paper deals with the emergence of the role of host in a non-moderated usenet newsgroup. First, we will define the specific features of a newsgroup as a digital document. Secondly, through the conversational analysis of a French-speaking non-moderated newsgroup, we will describe the way an user of a newsgroup can play the role of “occasional host”, adopting a particular interactional behavi...

Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...

A considerable body of research has investigated the use metadiscourse in academic writing different languages, and it is assumed literature that language- culture-specific. However, little how Arab writers interact with their readers Arabic articles (RAs). Thus, following Hyland’s (2005) models, this study explores interactional introductions 94 RAs totalling 88,350 words published between 201...

This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...

Abstract In theatre rehearsals, actors can occasionally be seen getting stuck in the play text, which is called blanking. To overcome such textual difficulties and continue with given a prompter verbalize line question, thus contributing to an actor’s word search by prompting. The paper focuses on interactional practices prompters interactionally resolve blanking situations. This study’s data c...