A Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Arabic Blurbs: An Investigation into Generic Structure and Appraisal Markers

This study investigated the generic structures and linguistic features of English and Arabic academic book blurbs from different disciplines. The study also examined appraisal markers in the blurbs within the appraisal framework to identify the main attitudinal markers that book blurb writers use to...

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Main Authors: Alireza Jalilifar, Abdolmajid Hayati, Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia, Dhahir Jafar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) 2016-12-01
Series:Teaching English Language
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Online Access:http://www.teljournal.org/article_53536_0aded0e38fc788f4f96371f0ef7d82c0.pdf