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Metadiscourse in a Disciplinary Context: An Overview

open access: yesChinese Journal of Applied Linguistics
Central to successful communication is an integration of talk about the experiential world and how this is made coherent, intelligible and persuasive to a particular readership. Metadiscourse equips us to achieve this interactivity. Simply, metadiscourse
Jiang, Feng Kevin, Akbaş, Erdem
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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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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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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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