Due to the significance of multiculturalism in politics, and the central role linguistic devices play in organizing the political discourse, this text-based qualitative study was carried out to compare political interviews in the Iranian and English contexts to find out the probable similarities and differences in the use of discourse markers (DMs) between the two cultures. To this end, three s...

Perceived prominence in Russian, a free word order language, can be communicated prosodically and/or via word order. Paired production and perception experiments with native speakers show that discourse-prominent constituents are marked acoustically and through a change in word order. These two route to prominence may reinforce each other, as evident from distinctively higher duration and inten...

Abstract In this article, we explored the pitch contour patterns of French discourse marker donc in realizing different pragmatic functions from native and non-native oral corpora French. Statistical analyses using generalized additive mixed modeling revealed that even though Mandarin Chinese L1 speakers learning also used cue to realize functions, their prosodic pattern is pattern. Their seeme...

For the recent decades, scholars have examined the use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs) paradigmatically through several comparative studies across varying languages and cultures. No study to date, however, has investigated a comprehensive, full-fledged comparison of the possible disparities among the native English writers (NEW), Iranian English writers (IEW), and Iranian Persian writers (IPW) ...