Abstract Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively qualitatively of four discourse academic spoken English. To purpose, markers, i.e., “I mean,” think,” “you see,” know,” were selected for study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was ...

Based on repetitive visits to three Scandinavian newspaper organizations, this paper presents trajectories of evolution for three Scandinavian news sites from 1996 to 1999. Genre awareness is an explanation of how users and designers create and maintain web site awareness beyond the individual site. In the paper genre is elaborated in terms of content, form and rationale. From the data it is co...

The project discussed in this article focuses on the creation of web genre benchmarks (a.k.a. web genre reference corpora or web genre test collections), i.e. newly conceived test collections against which it will be possible to judge the performance of future genre-enabled web applications. The creation of web genre benchmarks is of key importance for the next generation of web applications be...

Taking an interdisciplinary and bimodal approach to genre analysis, this paper examines the influence of an IT system on a genre of technical communication: the technical trouble ticket. This genre is examined first as an organizational practice, and then as a set of rhetorical statements; finally, the two approaches are combined and the role of the system in creating, controlling and enabling ...

In this paper, the kudryashov method has been used for finding the general exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations that namely the (3 + 1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation and the (3 + 1)-dimensional potential YTSF equation, when the simplest equation is the equation of Riccati.

Communicative moves and lexical cohesion patterns (LCPs), as mounting evidence shows, are two important indicators in writing and publishing the RAs. However, the interaction between these two crucial elements and the contribution of this interaction to the failure or success of the RAs have not been given due attention to date. Having this in mind and based on a sound theoretical framework, at...

The introduction is a pivotal sub-genre in academic writing because of its rhetorical role determining whether written work necessary and worth reading. A significant body research has examined the structure introductions different text genres, such as articles dissertations. However, little investigated moves undergraduate students’ essays, particularly Saudi context. Therefore, this study aim...