In newspapers, opinionated blogs written by male and female writers reflect subtle gender differences. This research aimed to study these gender differences through the lens of Hyland's (2005) framework of interactional metadiscoursal markers used by male and female bloggers in their writings. For this study, two medium-sized gendered corpora have been developed containing 1,23,847 words, and the data was retrieved from the Dawn newspaper from January 2020 to December 2020. To analyze this data interactional metadiscoursal markers were identified, and the frequency pattern of such instances had been noted in the blogs through corpus analysis. The free software tool AntConc was used to evaluate the frequencies of the selected expressions in male and female corpora. The findings indicated that female bloggers were more inclined towards using hedges, personal pronouns, boosters interactional metadiscoursal markers in their language as compared to male bloggers.
This article attempted to analyze the success stories of students at the tertiary level in an ESL context during the COVID-19 remote learning mode. This paper provided a meta-analysis of the narrative analysis using Polanyi’s framework (Polanyi, 1981). I argued that these success stories provided data to evaluate the conversational narrative framework on structural components and this meta-analysis highlighted the problems as well as the potentials of Polanyi’s conversational narrative model of analysis in the field of narratology. Data revealed that such evaluation of a conversational narrative’s non-Story world clauses offered critical insights as Polanyi delineated in her model.
The present study is a corpus-based analysis of speech act of complaint for exploring the complaint strategies adopted by Urdu speakers. It is a stereotype, that male Urdu speakers are more annoyed and threatening as compared to female Urdu speakers in their linguistic behaviour. A convenient sampling technique was adopted and Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was formulated and used to gather data. We have used both methods of analysis i.e. qualitative method and quantitative method for the interpretation of the data. The percentage of female Urdu speakers performing a Directive Act of Request (DA/R) in complaining situations is more than males. The study imlies that efforts should be made to overcome illiteracy and real-life situations should be practised at institutes so that whole Urdu-speaking community may become eligible to behave politely in real life and use language in a polite and civilized way. Keywords: Speech act of complaint, ELF, CMC, TripAdvisor
Autonomy is an idea originated from that the enlightenment movement and different philosophers viewed it with their perceptions over centuries. Communitarianism is a broad social philosophy which is contrasting with individualism and liberalism in all fields including educational ends. This paper following literature review as research methodology gives the viewpoint of some communitarian and feminist theorists about educational aims and how it is distinct from liberal theory and also counts on personal opinion right through. The middle line progress is advocated that the communitarian educational sighting suppressed individualities but the ‘atomic individual’ trend without communal considerations is also not that could be supported, and combined procession should be devised to approach including autonomy as an aim of education. Keywords: Communitarianism, Aim of Education, Educational Social Philosophy.
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