Anahita Negahdari - University of Khorasgan Islamic Azad

This study made analysis of attitude markers in English and Persian corpuses. Two books were selected: gofteman va tarjome Discourse and Translation : Ali Solhju and Discourse and practice : Theo Van Leeuwen . Sentence adverbials and verb modifying adverbs in Persian and English corpus were analyzed and frequency of the data were presented in a table and based on the table the conclusion were made. The results suggested that attitude markers generally and sentence adverbials and verb modifying adverbs specially are used in Persian and English differently. The results also showed that the frequency of attitude markers in Persian and English is different.

attitude markers, sentence adverbial, verb modifying adverb, discourse markers