nowadays novel is one of the most important patterns of story writing and indeed is an image of real life and the era that it was written in. the present article studies an era of social and political life of egyptians by studying “in darkness” as a novel written by najib alkeilani who is an egyptian contemporaneous author. najib alkeilani wrote this novel when he was in prison in 1957 ad.

Improving oral communication skills is fundamental when it comes to learning English, however; there are lots of factors that make mastering them challenging. English speakers often find managing verbal situations stressful, as they must mind and process many aspects in a restricted time. This paper focuses on the effect teaching multiword strings, known formulaic sequences, an operational tool...

as a member of larger familyof formulaic sequences , lexical bundles play different discourse functions in written research articles. this study investigated the use of four-word lexical bundles in published research articles in medicine via natural language processing by computational linguistics. a corpus of 2,420,914 words was extracted from 790 research articles in 33 medical disciplines. f...

In this paper, we present a methodology for the extraction of formulaic expressions, which goes beyond the mere extraction of candidate patterns. Using a pipeline we are able to extract information about the usage of formulaic expressions automatically from text corpora. According to Biber and Barbieri (2007) formulaic expressions are “important building blocks of discourse in spoken and writte...

In the Philippines, move-analytic investigations have been carried out. However, none of these attempted to look into genre thesis and dissertation abstracts. Cognizant this gap, study examined a corpus 100 research abstracts written by Filipino graduate students in one private university Western Metro Manila. order identify moves, rhetorical organization, linguistic features, deviations corpus...

PURPOSE The production of formulaic expressions (conversational speech formulas, pause fillers, idioms, and other fixed expressions) is excessive in the left hemisphere and deficient in the right hemisphere and in subcortical stroke. Speakers with Alzheimer's disease (AD), having functional basal ganglia, reveal abnormally high proportions of formulaic language. Persons with Parkinson's disease...