A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English and Persian Editorials

The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper edi...

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Main Authors: Davud Kuhi, Manijeh Mojood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2012-05-01
Series:Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:http://jal.iaut.ac.ir/article_520096_02a1d508df61a6895a0067a5ef35beee.pdf