مرور Volume 8, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language, Discourse and Pragmatics بر اساس عنوان
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An Analysis of Social Presence and Cognitive Presence in Discussion Forum
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)An increase of asynchronous online discussions in website provides much opportunity for L2 learners from different global communities to be exposed to the target language at their own pace and time. However, no research ...
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The Analysis of Style in Persian Translations of Pink Floyd Lyrics
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The existence of cultural gaps causes problems in translation process and harms the aesthetic aspects of texts. In this paper, it was tried to recognize the factors which cause inconsistency between the style of original ...
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Classroom Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Reflective Practice: Focus on Form Approach
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers' practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. The study benefitted ...
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A Comparative Study of Attitudinal Language Employed by English and Persian Writers in Academic Writing
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)Academic writing might incorporate evaluative strategies with the aim of construing and registering attitudinal positionings of writers towards other people, objects, and state of affairs included in the texts, and has ...
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A Comparative Study of Dialogistic Language Employed by English and Persian Writers in Academic Writing
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)Academic writing is typically encoded by relatively negotiable and arguable resources indicating the potentially dialogistic nature of its discourse community, and has been the area of investigation from different perspectives. ...
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A Comparative Study of Interactive and Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Sales Contract Written by English Natives vs. Iranian Non-natives
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)This study investigated two major types of metadiscourse markers as used in typical sales contracts, written by English natives and Iranian non-natives. In so doing, 60 sales contracts were selected, 30 written by native ...
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A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in English and Persian University Lectures
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from ...
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Persian Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Framed in Farahzad’s CDA Model
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)Framed in Farahzad's (2009) critical discourse analysis (CDA) model, the present research aimed at analyzing these influences in two Persian translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at micro and macro ...
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The Effect of Natural and Classroom Settings on Iranian Learners’ Pragmatic Competence: Length of Residence Versus Intervention
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The present investigation sought to comparatively explore the effect of length of residence (LOR) as well as EFL instruction on the pragmatic competence of Iranian learners. The participants were 45 EFL learners in Iran ...
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The Effect of Teachers' Follow-up Move Approach (F-move) on Iranian EFL Learners' Conversation Quality
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The present paper investigated the effect of teacher's follow‐up move approach on Iranian EFL learners' conversation quality. Ninety students were selected in a senior high school in Poldokhtar, Iran. Through an oral test ...
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The Elephant Will Kick the Donkey: An Attitudinal Analysis of Online Comments on the GOP Letter to the Iranian Supreme Leader
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents ...
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Exploring Impacts of Consciousness-raising in a Genre-based Pedagogy
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which ...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Phonological Awareness and Reading Ability: From Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The present study investigated the way elementary school teachers perceive the importance of phonological awareness in their classroom experiences. To achieve the aim, 75 elementary school teachers of both genders with ...
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Fathoming the Cultural Schema of Ta’ne in Persian Language: A Cultural Linguistic Study
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The aim of the present article is to probe the functions of the cultural schema of Ta'ne (sarcasm) in Persian. Results from 100 recorded instantiations of Ta'ne accumulated through ethnographic approach indicated that it ...
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Introspective Study of Emotion Icon in Public Chat as a Gesture of Texting
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)An emotion icon, better known as emoticon is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or ...
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Investigating Language Learning Strategies in ELT
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)Learning strategies play leading roles on students' understanding information and solving problems. Not being aware of learning strategies and their use may lead to students' failure. Furthermore, conducting research on ...
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An Investigation of Gender Differences Between Women’s and Men’s Informal Discussion in Iranian EFL Context
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)The language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. In order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. For this purpose, ...
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Linguistic Features of English Textese and Digitalk of Iranian EFL Students
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)This study aimed at investigating the English textese of Iranian EFL learners by scrutinizing the linguistic features through a qualitative design. In doing so, 700 messages were collected from 43 MA Iranian EFL learners ...
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Organization of Gatekeeping and Mental Framework in the System of Representation and Hierarchical Relational Structures of the Modern Society
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the ...
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A Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts by Iranian and Spanish Nonnative English Learners
(Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, 2017-02-01)This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners' request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners ...



