This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

Impersonal constructions are interesting from a typological perspective. Siewierska (2008: 3–4) finds that “[t]he semantic characterizations of impersonality centre on two notions”, either “the lack of a human agent controlling the depicted situation or event” or “situations or events which may be brought about by a human agent but crucially one which is not specified.” The present article focu...

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This paper presents a comparable corpus of Portuguese and Spanish consisting of legal and health texts. We describe the annotation of zero subject, impersonal constructions and explicit subjects in the corpus. We annotated 12,492 examples using a scheme that distinguishes between different linguistic levels (phonology, syntax, semantics, etc.) and present a taxonomy of instances on which annota...

Language means play a crucial role in the shaping stereotypes within cultural groups. The present study addresses issues of gender neutralization English-language advertising and newspaper texts. paper investigates linguistic involved creation genderneutral analysis gender-unmarked texts was conducted on material from rubrics "Lifestyle", "Health", "Sports", "Culture" Guardian edition. As resul...

The present investigation analyzes the use of a construction traditionally described as impersonal: periphrasis haber que + infinitive. This is variable phenomenon in Spanish grammar studied meaningful choice based on cognitive conceptualization salience. conveys meaning duty, obligation, recommendation or convenience by which speaker accepts situation unavoidable. Its analyzed texts Corpus Int...

BACKGROUND Retrograde amnesia is the most persistent cognitive adverse effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); however, it is not known whether ECT has differential effects on autobiographical vs impersonal memories. This study examined the short- and long-term effects of differing forms of ECT on memory of personal and impersonal (public) events. METHODS Fifty-five patients with major dep...