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The life of a political speech(writer): Metadiscursive text trajectories in high‐end language work

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 264-284, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Following Thurlow's (2020b) understanding of “wordsmiths,” in this paper I document an underexplored and markedly high‐end area of language work: political speechwriting. Drawing on Macgilchrist and Van Hout's (2011) text trajectory approach to ethnographic discourse analysis I engage with two primary areas of scholarship: metadiscourse and ...
Gwynne Mapes
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Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study

Personal Relationships, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 709-730, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Trans people's relationship with mental health providers carries historical tensions. Counseling services have been tied to standardized procedures or diagnostic certification of dysphoria and gender evaluations, while other psychosocial demands have been largely disregarded. Moreover, protocols and approaches focus disproportionately on Anglo‐
Konstantinos Argyriou
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Material inquiry and transformation as prerequisite processes of scientific argumentation: Toward a social‐material theory of argumentation

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 969-1009, August 2022., 2022
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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An Investigation into Metadiscourse Elements Used by Native vs. Non-native University Students across Genders [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2018
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, Ghasem Barani, Siavash Rokhsari   +2 more
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Marketing Logics and the Politics of Public Spheres: On Discursive Engineering and Enclosure

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 301-325, August 2022., 2022
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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Authorial and Gender Identity in Published Research Articles and Students’ Academic Writing in Applied Linguistics [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2023
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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BOOSTERS AS INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS: A CORPUSDRIVEN COMPARATIVE STUDY

IEDSR Association, 2021
This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category of interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, and commitment into the texts. One hundred articles are composed of the corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), and 50 from native ...
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Variation of metadiscourse in L2 writing: Focus on language proficiency and learning context

Ampersand, 2020
The current study aimed to examine how the use of metadiscourse markers may vary in the writing of language learners due to their language proficiency and learning context. To this end, 180 argumentative essays composed by native speakers of English (NSE)
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
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A Comparative Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in the Result and Discussion Sections of Literature and Engineering Research Papers [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2017
This study compares metadiscourse markers in result and discussion sections of literature and engineering research papers. To this end, 40 research articles (20 literature and 20 engineering) are selected from two major international journals.
Maryam Kahkesh, Mohammad Alipour
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Engagement in Translation: Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in American Presidential Debates [PDF]

Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures, 2020
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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