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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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Abstract Argumentation as a scientific practice has largely been examined along an epistemic and/or dialogic perspective in science education research. Both perspectives have sidelined the use of real material objects that are indispensable for scientists to construct arguments about the natural world. To address this gap, this article investigates how
Kok‐Sing Tang
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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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Marketing Logics and the Politics of Public Spheres: On Discursive Engineering and Enclosure
Scholarship on publics has proliferated during the past two decades, especially in linguistic anthropology. Drawing on Michael Warner’s famous formulation, publics are now routinely theorized as a social form predicated on the reflexive circulation of discourse. This article, however, identifies a tension within Warner’s conception of publics.
Andrew Graan
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An Investigation into Metadiscourse Elements Used by Native vs. Non-native University Students across Genders [PDF]
The present study has aimed at finding out whether or not students’ language background and gender bring about a distinction between the frequency and types of metadiscourse elements occurring in their papers.
Mohammad Ghazanfari +2 more
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Appraisal Resources in an Academic Genre: English versus Persian Nutrition Research Articles
Academic study writers utilize a specific set of discursive resources backed up by both cultural and professional norms to be endorsed by the intended audience. The current study aimed to investigate if there were any significant differences between English and Persian academic research articles published in peer‐reviewed journals in the field of ...
Mavadat Saidi, Rajesh Kamath
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This research is aimed to find metadiscourse form and metadiscourse category which are dominantly used in the undergraduate thesis introduction written by English Department students of Bengkulu University.
Putri Agustinos +2 more
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Authorial and Gender Identity in Published Research Articles and Students’ Academic Writing in Applied Linguistics [PDF]
This study explores how professional and student writers manifest their authorial identities and project their gender voices in their academic texts. To this end, 38 male-authored and 38 female-authored articles published in seven leading international ...
Mahsa Farahanynia, Saeed Nourzadeh
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Engagement in Translation: Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in American Presidential Debates [PDF]
With an audience in mind, politicians draw a political persona whereby their speech is engineered to involve receivers in a promised future. From their vocabulary arsenal, they choose words and structures that maintain a deliberately devised stream of thoughts to urge the electorate to vote.
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The Use of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in English Book Reviews Across Disciplines
The study aimed to investigate the frequency and type of stance and engagement features in each move of book reviews of soft and hard disciplines according to Hyland’s (2005) Interactional Metadiscourse taxonomy. A corpus of 102 book reviews published by 30 first quality journals in 6 disciplines was randomly selected and analyzed.
Neda Zal, Mohammad Raouf Moini
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