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Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.
Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
wiley   +1 more source

The use of interactional metadiscourse markers by Saudi EFL male and female college students: the case of a gender-sensitive topic

open access: yesHumanities & 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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profiling the Use of Attitude Markers, Boosters and Hedges in Academic Written Production of International Student Mobility Participants

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Cross-Move Analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Abstracts of Local And International Journals of History [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language Horizons
The current study aimed to explore the generic organization of research article (RA) abstracts published in the Iranian local and international history journals. To this end, a corpus of 80 RA abstracts (40 local and 40 international) were scrutinized in
Mavadat Saidi, Niloofar Karami
doaj   +1 more source

A corpus-based analysis of critical thinking through interactional metadiscourse in pre-service EFL teachers’ writing

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Education
Critical writing seeks to enhance university students' ability to think causally and reason effectively, and this improvement should be evident in their language use in the assignments.
Selahattin Yılmaz, Ferda İlerten
doaj   +1 more source

An Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in International Postgraduate Business Students’ Texts

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
Metadiscourse analysis reveals the way writers engage with different texts and communicate with each other. Examining these linguistic resources is important because they play a vital role in maximizing the learning experiences of students in the Master ...
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef
doaj   +1 more source

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