Several authors within psychology, neuroscience and philosophy take for granted that standard empirical research techniques are applicable when studying consciousness. In this article, it is discussed whether one of the key methods in cognitive neuroscience – the contrastive analysis – suffers from any serious confounding when applied to the field of consciousness studies; that is to say, if th...

Based on a contrastive approach that compares the argumentative genre of editorial with the narrative genre of personal narrative across two production modes, single-authored data and data elicited in an editing-based task, this paper examines the impact of genre on the realizations of discourse relations, paying particular attention to the argumentative genre and its preferential realizations ...

The presence of an abstract is required in a research publication, and it recurring problem for graduate students. purpose this literature review article to elucidate on the following topics by evaluating relevant publications published respectable journals between 2014 2021: (1) tendency rhetorical move usage, (2) linguistic features usage moves, (3) pedagogical implications moves teaching wri...

A plethora of research has shown that genre analysis through move is a practical approach to identify the complexity writing articles (RAs). However, little known about knowledge development manifested in abstract discourse patterns. This study aims determine whether or not there an influence from level education with knowledge, especially field abstracts. Using Hyland’s (2000) five-move model,...

This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

A close observation of Iran-Iraq war films in the Iranian society reveals that their genres have shifted in the course of the society’s evolution. This questions the category-based principles of genre we have known so far in literature concerning film theory and necessitates a new conceptualization of genre, which can be realized with the aid of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. This theo...

caspase-3, one of the dominant effectors caspases, is activated in almost every model of apoptosis with various signaling pathways. hence, inhibition of caspase-3 has become an attractive target in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. caspase-3 inhibitory activities of some 1,2-benzisothiazol-3-one derivatives were modeled by quantitative structure–activity relationship (qsar) using ste...