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Metadiscourse in Academic Writing: A Reappraisal

Applied Linguistics, 2004
Metadiscourse is self-reflective linguistic material referring to the evolving text and to the writer and imagined reader of that text. It is based on a view of writing as social engagement and in academic contexts reveals the ways that writers project themselves into their discourse to signal their attitude towards both the propositional content and ...
Tse, P, Hyland, K
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Toward Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse

2014
This paper describes the supervised classification of four metadiscursive functions in English. Training data is collected using crowdsourcing to label a corpus of TED talks transcripts with occurrences of Introductions, Conclusions, Examples, and Emphasis. Using decision trees and lexical features, we report classification accuracy.
Rui Correia   +3 more
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Metadiscourse in Persuasive Writing

Written Communication, 1993
Metadiscourse refers to writers' discourse about their discourse—their directions for how readers should read, react to, and evaluate what they have written about the subject matter. In this study the authors divided metadiscourse into textual metadiscourse (text markers and interpretive markers) and interpersonal metadiscourse (hedges, certainty ...
AVON CRISMORE   +2 more
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The metadiscourse of “voice”

2012
Discourse analysis of a sample of arguments about “voice” found in online searches supports tentative conclusions about the normative structure of this concept in ordinary metadiscourse. Centrally concerned with “voice” in the sense of “having voice” (legitimate participation) in a communicative process, the study finds that “voice” in ordinary ...
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Metadiscourse and coherence in interpreting

Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 2017
Abstract This paper aims to look closely at the achievement of coherence in interpreting through the prism of metadiscourse, a set of grammatical resources instrumental in organizing a discourse, guiding the recipients towards an author/speaker’s preferred interpretation while taking account of their needs and expectation. Despite a
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The Rhetoric of Textbooks: Metadiscourse

Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1984
(1984). The Rhetoric of Textbooks: Metadiscourse. Journal of Curriculum Studies: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 279-296.
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