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Zhu, Yuting – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The existing metadiscourse studies on the comparison of English and Chinese language are relatively few, especially on spoken discourse. The present study examines the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches based on Ädel's reflexive model of metadiscourse and its adaption. The corpus for this study comprises 60…
Descriptors: English, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Al-Araji, Baida Faisal; Al-Azzawi, Sarab Khalil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Religious discourse has been treated differently in various types of studies. In the present study, the English Biblical and Arabic Prophetic Hadiths will be tackled on two bases namely the micro and macro levels. In other words, the data will be analyzed at both micro and macro levels to maintain the organizational status of the religious texts.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Syntax, Discourse Analysis, Biblical Literature
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Al-Zubaidi, Nassier A. G.; Jasim, Tahani Awad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present paper is a genre analysis of linguistics books prefaces in English and Arabic. Following Swales' (1990) genre framework, this study is a small scale-based generic analysis of 80 preface texts, equally divided into 40 texts from English and Arabic. The corpus analysis revealed that to perform its communicative function, the genre of the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Computational Linguistics, Language Styles, Books
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Shareef, Dilgash M.; Qyrio, Marina Isteefan; Ali, Chiman Nadheer – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
For the purpose of achieving a successful communication, issues such as the appropriateness of speech acts and face saving become essential. Therefore, it is very important to achieve a high level of pragmatic competence in speech acts. Bearing this in mind, this study was conducted to investigate the preferred refusal strategies Kurdish and…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Native Speakers, Social Status
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Al-Zubbaidi, Haitham K. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Onomatopoeia has always been a functional poetic device which enjoys a high sound significance in the poetry of many languages. In modern English and Arabic poetry alike, it proves to be vital and useful at different levels: musical, thematic and at the level of meaning. Still, the cultural difference looms large over the ways it is employed by…
Descriptors: English, Semitic Languages, Literary Devices, Poetry
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Anber, Sameerah Jabbar; Swear, Muna Abdual Hussein – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the sociocultural differences in translating Euphemistic expressions from English into Arabic. Particularly, the study took the novel "A Grain of Wheat" to show the differences of these expressions usage by two translators from different cultures. The study adapts a qualitative approach applied in Leppihalme's…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Translation, English, Semitic Languages
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Abedi, Elham – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The development of speech-act theory has provided the hearers with a better understanding of what speakers intend to perform in the act of communication. One type of speech act is apologizing. When an action or utterance has resulted in an offense, the offender needs to apologize. In the present study, an attempt was made to compare the apology…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning