as a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (wis) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. through the examination of 100 iranian wis dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

This study examines the generic components of Arabic wedding invitation cards issued during Covid-19 period in Jordanian society. It aims to find out role played by pandemic shaping rhetorical structure (moves and steps) these cards. The sample consists 100 electronic which were analyzed using top-down (genre analysis approach) bottom-up processing. shows that there are nine component moves rea...

The present study examines through critical discourse analysis the practice of masking bride's name on Jordanian Muslim wedding invitation cards. Previous research has focused generic structure all components cards, and was a minor matter in these studies. Most studies referred to reason for this as either due people's religious (Islamic) beliefs or social norms. An electronic questionnaire use...