• Seyed Foad Ebrahimi

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• Seyed Jamal Ebrahimi

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This study intended to scrutinize the discourse function of the grammatical subjects used in the reserch article conclusion section. To this end, 15 research article conclusion sections written by different writers from the 
computer science discipline were randomly selected.  The gathered data were analyzed for the discourse function of the applied grammatical subject based on Davies (1988) and Gosden (1993) categorization. The result illustrated that the real world and the discourse domains captured the discourse function of more than two thirds of the applied grammatical subjects.

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