International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221-0989 (Online) 10.30845/ijhss

Text Organization: Analyzing Interaction in Persian Articles
Jila Khanjani

Abstract
Discourse analysis provides a means to more systematically engage in the descriptive analysis and comparison of written texts. Since language and culture are two basic factors that influence writing, the present study entitled ‘Analyzing interaction in written texts’, aims to investigate the way of deploying perspective Kenneth Goodman signaling interaction and metadiscourse strategy: interactive and interactional resources. In conclusion, the analysis revealed how newspaper articles of these groups differed in their rhetorical strategies using metadiscourse and prospective signaling. However, the different groups were found to use these strategies. Yet, these strategies were used differently by the writers of these two groups.

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