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Functions of Perspectival Metadiscourse in Reporting in Literature Reviews? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
An aeroelastic model has been developed to determine the elastic response of sailing yachts’ rigs and sails due to the aerodynamic pressure induced on the sails by the wind. A vortex-lattice method (VLM) is used to determine the aerodynamic pressure. The
Helmstad, Aron, Larsson, Tomas
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Teaching Multimodal Metadiscourse in English for Academic Purposes

open access: yesLidil, 2022
On the one hand, metadiscourse consists of discourse markers that do not add propositional content to discourse. On the other, multimodality is based on a functional analysis of language and includes all semiotic systems and resources.
María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
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Metadiscourse in postgraduate writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
<p>This thesis investigates metadiscourse in master’s theses and the relationship between metadiscourse frequencies and quality of thesis writing. Metadiscourse has been a major research focus in various genres and contexts, but only a small proportion of this work has compared metadiscourse in postgraduate writing across educational contexts and
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Metadiscourse within a discipline: A study of introduction and literature review chapters of sociology masters’ theses

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
It has been established that there are inter-chapter variations regarding metadiscourse use in masters’ thesis. This paper, therefore, investigates the differences and similarities in metadiscourse use between the Introduction and Literature Review (LR ...
Osei Yaw Akoto
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The importance of studying metadiscourse [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Research on English Language, 2012
This essay focuses on metadiscourse, a name for elements of texts that convey meanings other than those that are primarily referential. The essay provides some theoretical background to the study of metadiscourse, briefly reviews a taxonomy of ...
William J. Vande Kopple
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An Investigation of Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers as Persuasive Strategies in Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign Speeches

open access: yesCritical Literary Studies, 2020
Interpersonal metadiscourse is considered as a significant mean of smoothing communication between the speaker/writer and listener/reader. The present study intends to explore the concept and type of interpersonal metadiscourse markers employed by Donald
Parisa Etemadfar, Ehsan Namaziandost
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting metadiscourse: Conceptual and methodological issues concerning signalling nouns [PDF]

open access: yesIbérica, 2015
The concept of metadiscourse – the ways in which writers and speakers interact through their use of language with readers and listeners (also referred to as metalanguage and metapragmatics) – has received considerable attention in applied linguistics in ...
John Flowerdew
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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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INTERPERSONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS AS PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN BARACK OBAMA’S 2012 CAMPAIGN SPEECHES

open access: yesAksara, 2017
One of language features which can be applied to reach the persuasive goal is interpersonal metadiscourse. Although it has been frequently investigated in written texts, research on interpersonal metadiscourse in campaign speeches is still relatively ...
Bayu Permana Sukma
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