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Disciplinary interactions: metadiscourse in L2 postgraduate writing

Journal of Second Language Writing, 2004
Metadiscourse is self-reflective linguistic expressions referring to the evolving text, to the writer, and to the imagined readers of that text. It is based on a view of writing as a social engagement and, in academic contexts, reveals the ways writers project themselves into their discourse to signal their attitudes and commitments.
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Using interactional metadiscourse for rapport management

Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Abstract Facing the increasing enrolment pressure, most Chinese universities launch enrolment posts on WeChat. Yet the way posts are written is under-researched. This study analyses metadiscourse resources in thirty Chinese university enrolment posts with the purpose of examining how Chinese ...
Jialu Wang, Geqi Wu
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Interpersonal metadiscourse: an indicator of interaction and identity

Discourse Studies, 2002
By using genre analysis, this study investigates the way writers use interpersonal metadiscourse to partly reveal their identity and examines their selected mode of interaction in two major academic fields: the social sciences (SS) and natural sciences (NS). A total of 55 academic research articles from the SS and NS were selected as the corpus of this
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Metadiscourse and discourse processes: Interactions and issues

Discourse Processes, 1990
This paper reports the impact of metadiscourse, a rhetorical domain that regulates the communicative function of language, on sixth‐grade students’ learning and attitudes. Metadiscourse directing the reader how to regard the author and the text was divided into two types, informational and attitudinal, and inserted in a social studies textbook chapter ...
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Interactional metadiscourse in young EFL learner writing

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2014
This study investigates how young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners from Chinese, Spanish, and Polish mother tongue backgrounds use interactional metadiscourse in descriptive and argumentative English essays by drawing data from the ICCI corpus.
Huaqing Hong, Feng Cao
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Interactional metadiscourse in student and professional business correspondence writing

English for Specific Purposes
Shuangling Li, Xue Xiao
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Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Abstract Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based study investigates how Chinese scholars in applied linguistics deploy ...
Heng Gong, Feng Cao, Lingling Liu
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Exploring the role of interactional metadiscourse in the attainment of persuasion

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 2014
Starting from the assumption that there may be intercultural variations in the use of rhetorical devices in different cultures, this study focuses on ‘interactional metadiscourse’ in British and Iranian argumentation. This is achieved by using the author's model for analysing these metadiscursive devices.
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Metadiscoursal Superimposition as a Methodological Approach: Towards a structured, quantifiable, and functionally enriched framework of interactional metadiscourse

Written communication
Despite extensive research on metadiscourse, methodology reports in articles provide limited guidance on how to identify, classify, and, particularly in cases of clustered items, quantify metadiscourse markers. The paper discusses the methodological challenges of analysing metadiscoursal adjectives, using the example of novice academic writers’ use of ...
Višnja Pavičić Takač, Vesna Bogdanović   +1 more
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Are They Discussing in the Same Way? Interactional Metadiscourse in Turkish Writers’ Texts

2013
A number of linguistic devices used by writers to reify interaction between themselves and their intended audiences. This obviously includes explicit use of particular stance and engagement markers in different contexts depending on the language or the cultural background of writers.
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