COMPOSITION

This study is an investigation of the differences between the apology strategies used by Jordanians and Americans. The researcher has used two tests to get her data, the first designed by Sugimoto (1997) in her study of the differences of the apology strategies used in Japan and…

This study investigates the first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing processes of a group of Arab ESL students by addressing the following questions: (a) What are the writing processes undergraduate Saudi ESL students apply when writing in L1? (b) What are the writin…

The present study explores and compares persuasion in American and Arabic (Saudi) editorials from a speech act perspective. It sheds light on cultural similarities and differences between American and Arabic (Saudi) cultures in terms of persuasive written discourse. The data cam…

This work shows how a social organization might also be treated as a discourse network diachronically produced by a synergy between social and discursive structures. It contributes to recent efforts in bridging the gap between discursive and social structures on the one hand, an…

Abstract not available.

The field of contrastive rhetoric examines contrasting rhetorical structures across languages with the goal of predicting the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a foreign language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages such as Engli…

A This is a study of the rhetorical development of the trope "Yavneh" in rabbinic literature. The author identifies 51 distinct motifs and traditions within the nearly 200 rabbinic texts explicitly containing the term Yavneh in the Mishna, Tosefta, Midrashei Halakha, Midrashei A…

This dissertation examines the discourse properties of contemporary Turkish commercial correspondence. The primary data used consist of approximately 450 memoranda (internal correspondence) and fax messages (external correspondence) associated with four different Turkish compani…

The goal of this study was to investigate, classify, and analyze the different types of writing errors committed by a select sample of Iranian university students participating in ESL programs. Furthermore, the study strived to discover whether or not the students and their inst…

This thesis contends that some movements do not evolve at all. Such movements can be defined as "steady state" movements. One such movement is the Nation of Islam. It will be shown that the Nation of Islam defies the life-cycle hypothesis and that the Nation of Islam actually co…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interrelationships of Bible translators' values and intentions and the translations they have created. This was accomplished by reviewing some forty translation prefaces and introductions, from the English Revised Version of 1881 …