ملخص الجهاز:
"Utilizing Schematic Structure of Editorials (Based on van Dijk, 1992, 1995) to analyze the data, the researcher found significant similarities and differences between Persian and English in terms of genre of news.
Babaee (2011) who has conducted a vast research on English and persian news editorials, mentions a few of most important empirical studies in this field including that of Hirose (2003) where he focuses on similarities and differences between students’ L1 and L2 writing.
Methodology Corpus of the Study Focusing on the rhetorical analysis of news editorials, English and Persian newspaper websites seem to be a suitable resource.
The researcher, using contrastive rhetoric and genre analysis methodologies, then will analyze the editorials in terms of the organization of the rhetorical structure of the texts and the ways events and people are reported in order to find possible similarities or differences.
4. Regarding the second question of the study which states whether Iranian English newspapers are influenced by their native counterparts, the researcher will randomly gather 25 editorials from Tehran Times and compare them with New York Times to Data Analysis In the present study, an editorial is considered a kind of newspaper discourse that gives the opinion of the editor or publisher on a topic or item of newsǁ (Sinclair, 1995).
Results and Conclusion The analysis of the selected editorials revealed some important quantitative/ qualitative similarities and differences between the selected editorials in terms of the schematic structures and textual/ rhetorical devices employed in both the headlines and the editorials’ main texts."