The International speaker Dr Zakir Naik has been the target of many studies for his influential speeches. Analysing persuasive speeches can be tackled from different angles, amongst which is functional markers persuasion represented by Metadiscourse markers. Naik's have never analyzed a metadiscourse perspective. This paper aims to investigate types and functions in After transcribing videos ma...

The study of discourse markers has attracted the attention researchers as a facet linguistics since 19th century. focus research been based on theoretical status in relation to how they are used and for what reasons, explored different contexts settings; however, few studies have conducted context Saudi Arabia. This study, therefore, attempted look at use by senior university students majoring ...

      During recent decades publishing articles in academic journals has become a worldwide urge for all members of academia. There is, however, a widespread belief according to which more value is given to the articles published in internationally-recognized, high standard journals. An issue raised in this regard is whether the articles published in highly prestigious journals are remarkably d...

This article analyses Locating Adverbials (LAs) such as un peu plus tard, ce matin, deux kilomètres plus loin (‘a little later’, ‘this morning’, ‘two kilometers further’) when they are dislocated to the left of the sentence (IP Adjuncts cases). Although not discourse connectives, in such a position, they seem to play an important part in structuring discourse. It is this contribution of LAs to ...

We propose a linguistically driven approach to represent discourse relations in Chinese text as sequences. We observe that certain surface characteristics of Chinese texts, such as the order of clauses, are overt markers of discourse structures, yet existing annotation proposals adapted from formalism constructed for English do not fully incorporate these characteristics. We present an annotate...

This study investigates the use of concessive discourse markers (DMs) in Jordanian Arabic (JA), particularly relying on a corpus analysis naturally occurring data. It argues that there are mainly two types concession JA: extrinsic and intrinsic concession. The shown to differ from each other with respect Kratzer’s compatibility propositions. Intrinsic occurs when speaker has manifest intention/...