An Analysis of Metadiscourse and Pragmatic Hedges in Fred Rogers’ Commencement Speech
The research on metadiscourse formerly examined the language tools used to construct a speech without looking further at the contextual-related resource.
Intan Mustika Sari
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Paintings Alive: An Interactive Film for Young Museum Visitors [PDF]
To reach younger audiences, museums worldwide have incorporated interactive and hands-on activities, while some venues specialise in children as their main audience.
Wetzel, Victoria, Zioga, Polina
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It has been established that there are inter-chapter variations regarding metadiscourse use in masters’ thesis. This paper, therefore, investigates the differences and similarities in metadiscourse use between the Introduction and Literature Review (LR ...
Osei Yaw Akoto
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English and Arabic abstracts in medical research articles: A contrastive study
Abstracts in academic research serve important functions. An abstract is a summary of an entire article or thesis that defines its objectives, research problem, methodology, major findings, and implications.
Dalal Al-Zubi, Shehdeh Fareh
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Metadiscourse Markers in Scientific Journal Articles
This paper aimed to investigate the use of metadiscourse markers in scientific journal articles. Data of this qualitative research consisted of metadiscourse markers collected from eight journal articles of a special edition published by LLT Journal: A ...
Veronica Esti Nugrahani, Barli Bram
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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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Metadiscourse repertoire of L1 Mandarin undergraduates writing in English : a cross-contextual, cross-disciplinary study [PDF]
This article presents a qualitative, comparative study of metadiscourse in the academic writing of two groups of undergraduate students working in two different disciplines.
Li, Ting, Wharton, Sue
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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 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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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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