Discussion on sexism regarding language focuses on how women are discriminated against in our daily language and in academic writing. Although we are against any kind of discrimination, when it comes to dealing with this ...

Studies on linguistics have traditionally focused on written records of grammar. This gives only a partial account for the research in a limited context isolated from the producer. Apart from written output, it would ...

Research in discourse analysis has revealed that there are various types and functions of repetitions. This study adds to this discussion by examining the repetitions in the discourse of 83 learners of French. Repetition ...

Narrative discourse of EFL learners has long been the concern of many studies in the field of applied linguistics. As an extension to such studies, the present research aims to compare the use of reference forms in the ...

The bond between a driver and his truck has been the subject of many famous films. If not actual adoration of the vehicle, it certainly is the destiny shared between a living human and a running machine, both heading for ...

In read speech, it was observed that pauses preceding heads of phrases were produced considerably longer by native speakers of English than pauses following heads. Recorded data supporting this phenomenon does well exist ...

Pausing strategies in read and spontaneous speech have been of significant interest for researchers since in literature it was observed that read speech and spontaneous speech pausing patterns do display some considerable ...

Speaking before public is probably the most difficult skill to master. It requires not only a strong self-confidence but a multitude of verbal and/or non-verbal devices to utilize in speech. Speech makers are usually judged ...

As coherence is abstract in nature and there are very few practical techniques to teach it, this is considered to be one of the main problems that EFL students and teachers encounter. Although there is considerable research ...

Scientific writing is traditionally thought to be impersonal. Therefore, it is not surprising for academicians to see the encouragement of the use of impersonal constructions in scientific articles by most of style manuals. ...