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Ludmila Baturina; Elena Panova; Elena Tjumentseva; Zulkhumar Jumanova; Nikolay Lepikhov; Ilona Koroleva; Galina Vorobeva; Elena Khripunova – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
As newspapers follow editorial work, the author's identity remains in the background. Hence, newspapers' discursive features should be studied from textual perspectives to understand the social dimension of the messages produced in such texts. What is more, pragmatically, the text as a whole and its separate language units with their structural…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Text Structure
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Salam, Abdul; Mahfud, Mahmudah; Nurhusna, Nurhusna – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
Systemic Functional linguistics is related to a sign system that can be used to trace the scientific characteristic of academic texts. This study aimed at describing academic texts covering four technical terms: (1) simple, (2) dense, 3) objective, and (4) directness. Data analysis was done through three stages: (a) data reduction, (b) data…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
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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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Ononiwu, Mark Chitulu; Queen, Njemanze – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Major African writers have never stopped exploring the themes of corruption, radical struggles and political instability in their respective domains. One of these writers and his monumental classic, Chinua Achebe; "Anthills of the Savanna", discusses these themes expertly and with utmost dexterity. The major task of this paper is not to…
Descriptors: Crime, Political Issues, Authors, Novels
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Amrita; Anisha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Mira Bai, a saint-poet of North India is an important figure in medieval Hindi literature. Her "bhajan"-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein target domains are generally abstract. Since, the working of the mind is more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Poetry, Cognitive Processes, Spiritual Development
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Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
Seventy-seven new academics--59 at a large, public university in the UK and 18 at a medium-sized, private comprehensive university in the USA--were asked to read an extract of an article on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and mark the text according to categories of difficulty or dislike. Analysis of the data revealed six main…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Figurative Language, Literary Styles, College Faculty