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Writing Against Fate: Climate Strategies and Subversions in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Climate fiction's dominant futurist imaginaries trend towards resolved futures, particularly in apocalyptic and techno‐utopian representations of our climate futures. These closure‐driven narratives treat the future as a fated, distant event, limiting climate fiction's interrogation of human agency, responsibility, and potential action in the ...
Maryn Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the Application of Hyland Metadiscourse Model for Citation-based Automatic Text Summarization: A proposed Annotation Scheme for Citation Contexts [PDF]

open access: yesکتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی, 2019
Objective: Author's abstract contains those contributions that the author himself considers important. Meanwhile, they may be less important among scientific community. This supplementary information can be obtained by analyzing citing articles. Citation
Pegah Tajer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Interactional metadiscourse markers in political science research articles

open access: yes, 2022
The study examined the interactional metadiscourse markers used in higher and lower tiered political science research articles. The specific aspects studied were: (1) the frequencies of five categories of interactional markers; and (2) the distribution ...
Ting, Su Hie, Afifah, Nawawi
core   +1 more source

An Investigation into Metadiscourse Elements Used by Native vs. Non-native University Students across Genders [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2018
The present study has aimed at finding out whether or not students’ language background and gender bring about a distinction between the frequency and types of metadiscourse elements occurring in their papers.
Mohammad Ghazanfari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing?

open access: yesInternational 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   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction in two journalistic genres: a study of interactional metadiscourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The study of interactive features of language has been a very productive source of insights into written discourse in recent years, revealing the ways that writers engage with readers to successfully persuade them of a particular viewpoint in a range of ...
Hyland, Ken   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

nteractional Metadiscourse in Applied Linguistics Master theses: A Corpus Based Comparative Study

open access: yesRevue des Sciences Humaines, 2019
The purpose of the present study is to examine the interactional metadiscourse features in the introduction and conclusion sections of the Master dissertations written by Algerian students at the University of Constantine 1.
Tahar Bouchemet
doaj  

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