A cultural comparison of Persian and English short stories regarding the use of emotive words: implications for teaching English to Iranian young learners

A cultural comparison of Persian and English short stories regarding the use of emotive words: implications for teaching English to Iranian young learners

Abstract Using a contrastive analysis approach, this study aimed to study emotive words (EWs) in Persian and English short stories for children. It actually tries to find the similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of using emotive words based on different types and tokens of...

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Main Authors: Ehsan Namaziandost, Mehdi Nasri, Fariba Rahimi Esfahani, Leila Neisi, Farahnaz Ahmadpour KarimAbadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-05-01
Series:Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
Subjects:
Emotive words
Short stories
Cross-cultural analysis
Pragmatic knowledge
Academic emotions
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-020-00085-z

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