A Comparative Genre Analysis of Memorial Cards in English and Funeral/Memorial Announcements in Persian

Seyedeh Elham Elhambakhsh; Forugh Amirjalili; Elham Kashefi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , September 2015, , Pages 37-48

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2015.13696

Abstract
  As covert socio-cultural relations have significant effects on language, these norms are reflected in linguistic and generic structure of public death notices as a distinctive genre. This study intended to identify the different genres of death notices (e.g. memorial advertisements, obituaries, funeral ...  Read More