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

SAGE 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
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A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers and Gender in the Defense Seminars of Persian Speakers

Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2014
This paper aims to analyze the relation between a linguistic behavior, namely interactional metasdicourse, and a non-linguistic variable, namely, gender in thesis defenses of Persian speakers. Based on the model of community of practice, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the metadiscourse markers employed by male and female candidates in ...
Raha Zareifard, Batool Alinezhad
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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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A Cross-linguistic Study of Metadiscourse in English and Urdu Newspaper Editorials

Corporum, 2020
Metadiscourse markers are linguistic expressions which help the writers to organize their discourses. The original impetus for the research study came from the need to explore similarities and differences among the use and distribution of ...
Muhammad Imtiaz Shahid , Hafiz Muhammad Qasim , Muhammad Hasnain   +2 more
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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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How do Arab Writers Interact With Their Readers? An Analysis of the Use of Metadiscourse Markers

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2023
A considerable body of research has investigated the use of metadiscourse in academic writing in different languages, and it is assumed in the literature that the use of metadiscourse is language- and culture-specific. However, little research has investigated how Arab writers interact with their readers in Arabic research articles (RAs).
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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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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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