Metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. Despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of language use. In the present study the metadiscourse markers used in texts developed by non-native (Iranians) and the ones written by native (Americans) contrastively analyzed. The frame work of this...
Metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach t...
In recent years, there is an enormous improvement in the empirical studies particularly on second language acquisition and the main concentration is on the transfer of first language in learning the second one because the people with different languages and different pragmatic competences may misunderstand each other due to the fact that the same speech act may be realized differently cross cultures and languages.Therefore the study investigated a contrastive analysis of English Request and Refusal speech acts between Persian and Azerbaijani speakers of Iranian upper intermediate EFL...
In recent years, there is an enormous improvement in the empirical studies particularly on second language acquisition and the main concentration is o...
