Interest in language variation is a staple of English for Academic Purposes research and underpins its distinctive character as field inquiry. It the specific nature use which defines EAP, yet this definition has been established almost entirely on basis inter-discoursal studies, with comparisons register, genre, discipline, first language, etc. dominating our understanding. In paper we take di...

as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

Formal homiletics, which treats the homily as an act of interpersonal communication involving connection four elements, preacher, listener, content and mode transmission, demands that contemporary developments in studies concerning art effective transmission be considered. The article discusses importance homiletics theory their interrelationship collection, analysis, interpretation preaching c...