چکیده:
Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse disciplines. Data analysis revealed patterns of initiating and closing, persuading through lexical items, using politeness markers, intensifying, and consequencing. The goal is finding out how both male and female students from various disciplines buy their respective professors’ favors in their online mark reconsideration appeal to increase their mark and avoid failure.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse disciplines.
Keywords: Mark Negotiation Discourse, Persuasion, Power Relations, Thematization, Polite Language, Ta’arof, Clichés, Intensifying, and Consequencing ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Accepted: Wednesday, January10, 2018 Published: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Available Online: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 DOI: 10.
The purpose of the present study is to investigate how Iranian university-level EFL learners used patterns of initiating and closing, persuasive lexical items, politeness markers, intensifiers, intertextuality justification, and consequencing in order to persuade their respective professors to reconsider their scores.
The appeals were copied and examined in the light of a sociolinguistic/discourse analysis in terms of patterns of initiating and terminating, the use of intensifiers and consequencing, item length, polite language, and persuasively loaded lexical items.
Some discourse markers in the data for the present study helped the researcher to identify a set of identity markers used by the students who had sent online score reconsideration appeals.
The openings usually contain a polite address form like, “professor,” and face saving description of the present state of the problem followed by the body or main part of 88 The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2015, pp.