This study analyzes the types and frequencies of hedges and intensifiers employed in NS and NNS academic essays included in a corpus of L1 and L2 student academic texts (745 essays/220,747 words). The overarching goal of this investigation is to focus on these lexical and syntactic features of written discourse because they effectively lend themselves to instruction in L2 academic writing cours...

Few things give me greater pleasure than reading good prose. I've been reading an unbroken series of what I snobbishly call "good books" – Dickens, Trollope, Hemingway, Powell, Austen, Eliot, Conrad, James, Proust, Balzac, Roth, Updike, McEwan, and the like – since I was a teenager. Beside my bed I have a copy of Harold Bloom's The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer to Frost. Bloo...

This article studies the specific behaviour of characters in forest space within framework gender aspect. The study demonstrates that works traditionalist writers 1960s and 1970s, as one iconic loci rural world, traditionally preserving semantics unknown, “sacred” space, reveals a characteristic influence on behavior characters. provides examples suggest plays significant role this regard. It i...

maqama has been introduced to the islamic east by badi' al-zaman al-hamadani and hariri. this type of prose gain popularity among andalusian writers, and some of them, such as sarakosti, al-wahrani, and al-azodi, created maqamat. literature is a mirror that reflects the economic and social characteristics of an era. however, the above-mentioned maqamat did not reflect the real role and of ...

 In this research, different English translations of Sa‘di’s Bustan were studied. An anecdote was selected randomly with its three English translations to identify whether or not the translators have managed to convey the messages of the original poem. The three selected translations were examined according to two of the criteria that Larson (1984) has proposed (accuracy and naturalness) for te...

deviation is one of the most effective methods of prominence and abnormal in literature, poetry and prose; this lets to poets and writers to change the system of typical language and express their meanings and concepts in the new form and new expression and absorb. jabran khalil jabran expressed his implecations in a graceful form with music of arrangement words in different expression using va...

Despite the tremendous strides made in recent years by Australian theatre and despite the dozen or more dedicated and professional playwrights which this has helped support there is nevertheless a greater sense of expectation than achievement in most public response to the plays and playwrights which have emerged. Distinctive, even distinguished, plays and writers can be found but there still s...