Metadiscourse Markers Revisited in EFL Context: The Case of Iranian Academic Learners’ Perception of Written Texts [PDF]
Moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (MD) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse ...
Parviz Alavinia, Sahar Zarza
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A Study of the Research Article Discussion Section Written by Native Authors: Hyland’s (2005) Metadiscourse Model in Focus [PDF]
Academic writing in general and writing research articles in particular have long been considered a crucial mode of discourse, which is due to its challenging requirements for writers.
Jafar Asadi +2 more
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Effect of metadiscourse on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners [PDF]
Metadiscourse, known as discourse about ongoing discourse, has been the subject of discourse research from a wide range of perspectives. In academic contexts, knowledge of metadiscourse as a prominent feature of all types of academic discourse provides
Radha M.K Nambiar, +2 more
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Text-organizing metadiscourse: Tracking changes in rhetorical persuasion [PDF]
Published academic writing often seems to be an unchanging form of discourse with its frozen informality remaining stable over time. Recent work has shown, however, that these texts are highly interactive and dialogic as writers anticipate and take into ...
Hyland, Ken, Jiang, Fang (Kevin)
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A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse in English Research Article Abstracts in Hard Disciplines by L1 Chinese and L1 English Scholars [PDF]
This study investigates how L1 Chinese scholars in hard science disciplines use metadiscourse in their English academic writing, by comparing the deployment of metadiscoursal resources written by L1 Chinese and L1 English scholars.
Jing Wei, Jing Duan
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Metadiscourse: What is it and where is it going? [PDF]
Metadiscourse – the ways in which writers and speakers interact through their use of language with readers and listeners – is a widely used term in current discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching.
Hyland, Ken
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Metadiscourse and Topic Introductions in an Academic Lecture: A Multimodal Insight [PDF]
This paper is part of a larger scale project where I explore the structure of academic lecture. The focus of the study here presented is to investigate the structure and organization of a university lecture through the introduction of new topics.
Bernad-Mechó, Edgar
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Interactional Metadiscourse Analysis of ESL Learners’ Essays
This study analysed interactional metadiscourse markers on 40 expository essays by ESL learners from hard and soft science courses based on metadiscourse table of Hyland (2005). The study aimed to examine whether both groups used the same amount and type, and whether learners in different course groups differed in their selected metadiscourse. There
Masliza Mat Zali +3 more
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Political Media Discourse as an Interactional Space: Presidential TV Addresses to the Nation from a Metadiscourse Perspective [PDF]
The study of political media discourse as an interactional space requires an analysis of not only its linguistic characteristics and propositional content but also its metadiscourse component, strategies employed to express speaker’s attitudes and ...
Olga А. Boginskaya
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Functions of Perspectival Metadiscourse in Reporting in Literature Reviews? [PDF]
An aeroelastic model has been developed to determine the elastic response of sailing yachts’ rigs and sails due to the aerodynamic pressure induced on the sails by the wind. A vortex-lattice method (VLM) is used to determine the aerodynamic pressure. The
Helmstad, Aron, Larsson, Tomas
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