Haleh Pourbehzad - Department of English Language, Faculty of Language and Literature, Free Institute of Higher education, Kerman Iran
Hamide Kamkar - Faculty of Foreign Languages , Ferdosi University ,Mashhad, Iran
Motahare Mollaie Khas - Department of English Language, Faculty of Language and Literature, Free Institute of Higher education, Kerman, Iran

Obituary is one of the important text genres. Obituary is a published announcement of death. In this study tried to investigate the rate of attitude and culture of people for selecting an obituary announcement. The present study analyzed linguistic and non-linguistic genres. Linguistic components such as: literary text, poem , and verse of Quran and non-linguistic component like appearance. Forty-eight men and women of different level of education, age, occupation and in Kerman, Jiroft, south of Iran participated in this study and questionnaire with 16 items was used for the purpose of this research .The participants were divided into three groups base on education, financial situation, age. Use SPSS table frequency, diagram and bar procedures to compare the means of each groups . The findings showed that different reason affect the obituary announcement discourse selection such as: gender, education, wealth, religion, culture In this research adopting. Swales (1990) approach to genre move analysis. Swale identifies genre as a class of communicative events where there is some shared set of communicative purposes . Swales’ (1990) approach to genre move analysis, there is two kind of obituary: optional and obligatory, this study has examined corpus of different obituary announcement from 1380-1394. The result showed obituary genres is in course of development in Iran.

obituary announcement, genre analysis, discourse selection, Swales (1990), genre move analysis