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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">25304</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-4-796-815</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A comparative study of proximity in Iranian and American newspaper editorials</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Сопоставительное исследование проксимальности в редакционных статьях иранских и американских газет</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Alipour</surname><given-names>Mohammad</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Алампур</surname><given-names>Мохаммад</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>holds a Ph.D. in English Language Teaching (ELT) and is currently a faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch. His research interests include discourse analysis and pragmatics. He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологии, специалист в области преподавания английского языка как иностранного, преподаватель Исламского университета Азад (Ахвазский филиал). Сфера научных интересов - дискурс-анализ и прагматика. Имеет ряд публикаций в научных журналах</p></bio><email>alipour83@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Jahanbin</surname><given-names>Parastoo</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Парасту</surname><given-names>Джоханбин</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>holds an M.A degree in English Language Teaching (ELT) and is currently working as an English teacher</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>магистр по специальности «Преподавание английского языка как иностранного», преподаватель английского языка. Работает на кафедре преподавания английского языка, Гуманитарный колледж Исламского университета Азад (Ахвазский филиал), Ахваз, Иран.</p></bio><email>parastoo_jahanbin@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Islamic Azad university</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Исламский университет Азад</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 24, NO4 (2020)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 24, №4 (2020)</issue-title><fpage>796</fpage><lpage>815</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-12-21"><day>21</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Alipour M., Jahanbin P.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Алампур М., Парасту Д.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2020, Alipour M., Jahanbin P.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Alipour M., Jahanbin P.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Алампур М., Парасту Д.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Alipour M., Jahanbin P.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/25304">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/25304</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The study is aimed at gaining further insight into the concept of proximity and its contribution to text development in general and newspaper editorials in particular. It also furthers our understanding of cross-linguistic differences in the use of metadiscourse. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare proximity elements in Iranian and American newspaper editorials. Following Hyland's proximity model (2010a) which comprises five major elements, organization, argumentative structure, stance, engagement, and credibility , we focused on a detailed analysis of proximity features in two corpora, Iranian newspaper editorials and American newspaper editorials. To this aim, 240 newspaper editorials, including 120 editorials from each category, were collected. The outcomes revealed that there were significant differences in the use of proximity elements in the mentioned corpora. It was demonstrated that stance markers were considerably more recurrent in the American data than their Iranian counterpart. Unlike the American editorials, the Iranian ones contained a larger number of engagement markers. The key reasons behind such discrepancies are discussed in terms of differences in cultural, social, and political backgrounds. This study can be helpful for English for Specific/Academic Purposes (ES/AP) learners who study journalistic English to become familiar with proximity.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Данное исследование нацелено на осмысление понятия проксимальности и его вклада в формирование текста в целом и газетных редакционных статьей в частности. Оно также углубляет понимание кросскультурных различий в использовании метадискурса. Цель исследования - рассмотрение и сопоставление элементов проксимальности в редакционных статьях иранских и американских газет. Опираясь на модель проксимальности К. Хайленда (2010a), которая включает пять основных элементов (организация, аргументативная структура, позиция, вовлеченность и доверие), мы сосредоточились на детальном анализе особенностей проксимальности в двух корпусах данных - редакционных статьях иранских и американских газет. С этой целью было собрано 240 газетных редакционных статей, по 120 в каждой категории. Исследование показало, что между двумя корпусами наблюдаются серьезные различия в использовании проксимальности. Был сделан вывод о том, что в американских редакционных статьях маркеры отношения встречались намного чаще, чем в иранских. В отличие от американских редакционных статей, иранские включали намного больше маркеров вовлеченности. Причины этих расхождений обсуждаются с точки зрения культурных, социальных и политических фоновых различий. Знакомство с особенностями проксимальности может быть полезным для тех, кто изучает английский язык для специальных/академических целей (ES/AP), в частности для журналистики.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>editorials</kwd><kwd>proximity</kwd><kwd>metadiscourse</kwd><kwd>stance</kwd><kwd>engagement</kwd><kwd>English</kwd><kwd>Persian</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>редакционная статья</kwd><kwd>проксимальность</kwd><kwd>метадискурс</kwd><kwd>позиция</kwd><kwd>вовлеченность</kwd><kwd>английский язык</kwd><kwd>персидский язык</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abdollahzadeh, Esmaeel. 2007. Writer’s presence in Persian and English newspaper editorials. Paper presented at the International Conference on Systemic Functional Linguistics in Odense, Denmark.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Adel, Annelie. 2006. 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