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Saedeen, Mohammad; AlBzour, Naser N. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
The primary concern of the present study is to provide a critical discourse analysis of Donald Trump's denial speeches of the 2020 United States presidential election's results. Using Van Dijk's framework of critical discourse analysis, this study investigates the linguistic features in five speeches of Donald Trump delivered after announcing the…
Descriptors: Presidents, Speeches, Discourse Analysis, Political Attitudes
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Monsefi, Roya; Mahadi, Tengku Sepora Tengku – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the endless stream of information available on the news media market, news headline language is characterised by several linguistic, pragmatic, rhetorical and functional features that distinguish it from other varieties of language that are not specialised. In the present study, the rhetorical features of English news headlines, through…
Descriptors: Language Usage, News Reporting, Pragmatics, Rhetoric
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Green, Kieran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Language is nature in action and something humans do. This literature review presents evidence from the literature that suggests that learning a foreign language in a classroom situation does not require high levels of student motivation. It is instead suggested that high levels of motivation are needed to make progress when a teacher is using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews
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Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Biria, Reza; Zavari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the functional role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English and Persian Economic news reports. To this end, 10 news articles, 5 in each language, were randomly selected from the Economic sections of the leading newspapers published in 2013-2014 in Iran and the United States. Based on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Indo European Languages, Newspapers