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..............................................................................................................vii Acknowledgments................................................................................................ix Introduction...........................................................................................................1 1. Theoretical background .........................

This contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by Arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of Persian (NSP) and native speakers of English (NSE) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

........................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................... iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................... iv NOMENCLATURE ....................................................................