A Contrastive Rhetorical Analysis of the News Reports in Iranian and American Newspapers

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Amir Sabzevari ¹ , Vahid Sadeghi ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Iran
2 - University of Malaya, Malaysia

Received: 2013-01-03 Accepted : 2013-08-14 Published : 2013-08-14

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