Investigating Unmarked and Marked Themes in Academic Textbooks Case Study: ESP for Nursing and EGP for Accounting Students ‎

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1 PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University,Abadan,Iran.‎

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran (Corresponding author)

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

The present study examines unmarked and marked themes usage in academic texts by Iranian and non-‎Iranian authors.The research method is descriptive-analytical and the statistical population is835 clauses which ‎were counted based on Systemic Theory then the texts ‎were compared with each other in terms of genre,author,and corpus.Based on the results the ‎number of unmarked themes used was77% and74%, and that of marked themes was23% and ‎‎26% in ESP and EGP respectively.It shows that their usage did not differ significantly.This ‎similarity could be related to the co-genre of the texts and and has nothing to do with the specific ‎characteristics of the books or the cultural subject of the authors.The configuration of the ‎given texts is consistent with the Systematic view and confirms the necessity of it’s suggested structural options in ‎writing the scientific texts.At last, different frequency of themes may also be justified by the writers' prioritization and ‎arrangement of materials, each of which pursues a specific purpose and style.‎

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Linguistic Studies: Theory and Practice

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Available Online from 06 April 2025

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  • Receive Date: 13 October 2024
  • Revise Date: 06 April 2025
  • Accept Date: 06 April 2025

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