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In academic writing, writers intend to use the linguistic term "metadiscourse" to guide, to make their readers interact, and to persuade them through interactive and interactional levels of metadiscourse.
Zaid Hamad , Ra'ed Al-Khuzai
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Metadiscourse repertoire of L1 Mandarin undergraduates writing in English : a cross-contextual, cross-disciplinary study [PDF]
This article presents a qualitative, comparative study of metadiscourse in the academic writing of two groups of undergraduate students working in two different disciplines.
Li, Ting, Wharton, Sue
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A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Reflection of Metadiscourse Markers in the Acknowledgements of the Iranian and Native English Dissertations [PDF]
The acknowledgement section in a thesis or dissertation expresses gratitude for the people who have helped the author in the process of conducting the research and writing the paper. The study sought to explore the extent to which metadiscourse
Dina Zakeri,Fazlollah Samimi
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The aim of this study was to develop further analyzing of metadiscourse categories in second language learners of International Program School of Muhammadiyah University Surakarta.
suhono suhono, Haikal Haikal
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Metadiscourse in upper secondary pupil essays: Adapting a taxonomy [PDF]
The concept of metadiscourse, which refers to a range of interactional and organisational linguistic resources, has been increasingly used in studies that analyse professional and tertiary-level writing.
Thomson, James Jacob
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Taking the non-integrative approach to metadiscourse (Ädel 2006; 2008), this paper carries out a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of text- and participant-oriented metadiscourse in two rhetorically forceful research article sections ...
Carmen Pérez-Llantada
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Metadiscursive Features in Research Articles: The Role of Stimulated Recall [PDF]
While metadiscourse has been extensively examined across several genres, contexts of publication, disciplines, and languages over the past two decades, researchers have mainly limited themselves to the qualitative checking of candidate metadiscourse ...
Rajab Esfandiari, Omid Allaf-Akbary
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Bundle-driven metadiscourse analysis: Sentence initial bundles in Chinese and New Zealand postgraduates' thesis writing [PDF]
Metadiscourse and lexical bundles are two closely related concepts and both operate as overlapping functional units in texts. Metadiscourse analysis always takes a top-down approach, in which discourse analysts begin from pre-determined metadiscourse ...
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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A Review of Recent Metadiscourse Studies: The Iranian Context
While studies of metadiscourse in a European or US context have been conducted since the 1980s and have reached a relatively wide audience, studies of metadiscourse outside of these areas have a more recent history (if any) and have not attracted much ...
Avon Crismore, Esmaeel Abdollehzadeh
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Metadiscourse, Cohesion, and Engagement in L2 Written Discourse
The current study examines how L2 Chinese writers at different proficiencies employed various metadiscourse devices to shape their written descriptive discourse and also whether various metadiscourse features may distinguish levels of writing proficiency.
Jianling Liao
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