This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper
editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials …

Although euphemism has been studied in many Arabic dialects, it has not yet received due
attention in Iraqi Arabic (IA). This study investigates the use of euphemistic strategies by IA …

Using a mixed-method approach, this study examines the pragmatic functions of the
discourse marker walak and its variants in Spoken Jordanian Arabic. It also explores the …

Little research has related DMs to (im) politeness, and none in Jordanian Arabic (JA). This
study provides evidence that (im) politeness can categorize interactive DMs into polite DMs …

This study investigated the use and functions of metadiscourse markers in English as a
foreign language (EFL) virtual classroom during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study …

This paper aims to uncover the types of strategies employed by highachiever students in
essay writing classes and discern the reasons for their exercise of those strategies. Ten …

This study compares the use of discourse markers (DMs) in expository writing between
Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers, aiming to identify overused and …

This study focused on the use of discourse markers by students in writing procedure texts.
The aim was to identify the types of discourse markers that were most often used in writing …

Writing is a fundamental aspect of the academia. An academic is often required to write,
publish quality and quantifiable research papers or perish. This herculean task of writing …