Papers by Hoda Mohsenzadeh
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2013
Genre analysis dealing with how people use language in particular discourse communities has becom... more Genre analysis dealing with how people use language in particular discourse communities has become the focus of research in the last two decades (Tahririan & Jalilifar, 2004). Considering the importance attributed to genre studies, the present research was conducted to report on a move analysis of literature book prefaces in English and Persian. The obligatory moves in the English corpus were found to be: General statement about or general description of the book/ The purpose/ Information about the chapters or other volumes and the obligatory moves in Persian prefaces were found to be: the significance of the topic/ general explanation about the topic/ Thanking others and expressing gratitude to people who have helped in the process of writing the book (acknowledgements).
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
Regarding the important instructional role of email exchanges between teachers and students in in... more Regarding the important instructional role of email exchanges between teachers and students in institutional environments, this study was conducted as an attempt to examine particular pragmatic features in emails sent by Iranian university students to their professors during the academic year 2012. Following Chalack et al. (2010), the researchers aimed at investigating the pragmatic features of real examples of email messages from academic sources to find some clues as to how female and male Iranian students go about writing such messages, for what purposes, and with what strategies. More specifically, in this study, a corpus consisting of 145 student-initiated emails was analyzed in terms of the senders' use of communicative strategies and communicative topics by using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. While findings related to the first two posed research questions showed both similarities and differences compared to the most prominent works on this genre, the analysis also revealed some interesting points about the use of abbreviations by the senders and also their awareness of the medium they were using for contacting their instructors.
Rhetorical Move Structure of literature Book Prefaces in English and Persian
Conference Presentations by Hoda Mohsenzadeh
Investigating Iranian University Students' Emails for Pragmatic Features
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Papers by Hoda Mohsenzadeh
Conference Presentations by Hoda Mohsenzadeh