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VARIATIONS IN METADISCOURSE USE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW THESIS CHAPTERS

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2020
Studies have established that thesis chapters are both similar and dissimilar with respect to their rhetorical choices. This paper examined metadiscourse use in the Introduction and Literature Review (LR) chapters of English Language theses from a ...
Osei Yaw Akoto, Joseph Benjamin A. Afful
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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London Public multiple : organisation des communautés et politique fractale dans l'est de Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1022, December 2025.
Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
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Writing Against Fate: Climate Strategies and Subversions in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Future 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
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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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Projecting Cultural Identity through Metadiscourse Marking; A Comparison of Persian and English Research Articles [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2009
Writing projects are socially-situated identities. The rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities.
Reza Abdi
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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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A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English and Persian Editorials [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre.
Davud Kuhi, Manijeh Mojood
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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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METADISCOURSE MARKERS WRITTEN IN INTRODUCTION SECTION OF FINAL PROJECT OF UNIMUS EFL LEARNERS

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2019
Metadiscourse marker is one of determining indicators of the quality of the writers’ writing. Metadiscourse markers enable the writers to interact with the readers effectively.
Siti Aimah, Dodi Mulyadi, Muhimatul Ifadah   +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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