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Racing whiteness in Asian bodies: The influence of American conservatism on Singaporean anti‐colonial nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1078-1098, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary Singaporean sociopolitical discourse, comparisons with the West—particularly the USA and the UK—have become pervasive across a wide range of critical social issues. These comparisons often serve to reinforce the political positions of the Singaporean state by contrasting them with perceived shortcomings in the Western world ...
Wee Yang Gelles‐Soh
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Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing?

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1242-1261, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Stance in academic discourse has been extensively studied, with numerous investigations indicating that its expression varies across disciplines, depending on the authors’ intention to either enhance or diminish their voice or presence (e.g., It seems fairly certain vs. This is based on the belief that…).
Elizaveta A. Smirnova, Javier Pérez‐Guerra   +1 more
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Rhetorical moves and metadiscourse in English–Vietnamese literature reviews: Variations in niche construction and authorial positioning [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study examines how literature reviews in English and Vietnamese linguistics research articles construct research positioning through rhetorical move structure and interactional metadiscourse.
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
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Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)—a state‐aligned Chinese animation—I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing ...
Jiarui Sun
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Metadiscourse Features in Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering: The Use of Interactive and Interactional Markers [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
: Several studies on metadiscourse zero in on how genres show nuances of linguistic features that reside in various structures depending upon the linguistic exigencies of language for specific purposes.
Ramsey Ferrer
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Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 73-90, February 2025.
Abstract This article studies the use of lexical hedges and boosters in English‐medium Master's theses by L2 (Czech) graduates in English language and literature programmes. Drawing on the metadiscourse framework and adopting a corpus‐based approach, the study analyses the frequency, realisations, and function of hedges and boosters in a corpus of 48 ...
Olga Dontcheva‐Navratilova
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Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Down the Rabbit Hole of Generative AI (Image Generated by the Authors in Midjourney) Abstract The latest mutation of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, is more than anything a technology of writing. It is a machine that can write. In a world‐historical frame, the significance of this cannot be understated.
Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope
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The use of interactional metadiscourse markers by Saudi EFL male and female college students: the case of a gender-sensitive topic

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
A few studies have explored the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing by male and female college students. More importantly, none explored the topic of metadiscourse resources with respect to gender-sensitive topics.
Ghuzayyil Mohammed Al-Otaibi, Abeer Abdulhadi Hussain   +1 more
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Representation of interactional metadiscourse in translated and native English: A corpus-assisted study. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Chou I, Li W, Liu K.
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Profiling the Use of Attitude Markers, Boosters and Hedges in Academic Written Production of International Student Mobility Participants

Journal of Language and Education
Background: Motivated by the growing interest in the impact of study abroad programs on language development, the present research addresses a gap in the literature by examining the often-overlooked role of metadiscourse markers in writing.
Саня Маринов, Mirna Varga
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