2. Applied Linguistics (Inspirations from neighbor disciplines)
An Investigation of the Online Farsi Translation of Metadiscourse Markers in American Presidential Debates

Davud Kuhi; Mahya Esmailzad; Shirin Rezaei

Volume 8, Issue 1 , April 2020, , Pages 51-64

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2020.26749.1166

Abstract
  The term metadiscourse rarely appears in translation studies despite the continuously growing body of research on discourse markers in different genres and through various perspectives. Translation as a product that needs to observe such markers for their communicative power and contribution to the overall ...  Read More

Promotion of Self in an Other-Oriented Academic Sub-Genre: The Case of Self-Mention in Acknowledgments

Mahnaz Saeidi; shirin Rezaei

Volume 2, Issue 2 , September 2014, , Pages 84-98

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2017.13652

Abstract
  Although sometimes considered to act only as a means of recognizing debts, acknowledgments give the opportunity for writers to display a self-conscious and reflective representation of self. Following this assumption and to reveal some of the ways this is achieved, a corpus of 80 textbook acknowledgments ...  Read More