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A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English and Persian Editorials [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre.
Davud Kuhi, Manijeh Mojood
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Cross-Sectional Diachronic Corpus Analysis of Stance and Engagement Markers in Three Leading Journals of Applied Linguistics [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2019
Thanks to recent developments in metadiscourse studies, it is now increasingly accepted that metadiscourse practices are closely related to social activities, cognitive styles and epistemological beliefs of academic communities.
Shirin Rezaei Keramati, Davud Kuhi, Mahnaz Saeidi   +2 more
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Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing?

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1242-1261, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Stance in academic discourse has been extensively studied, with numerous investigations indicating that its expression varies across disciplines, depending on the authors’ intention to either enhance or diminish their voice or presence (e.g., It seems fairly certain vs. This is based on the belief that…).
Elizaveta A. Smirnova, Javier Pérez‐Guerra   +1 more
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Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)—a state‐aligned Chinese animation—I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing ...
Jiarui Sun
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ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 159-177, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificial historians can be proposed through the recognition of historiographical logic, which is a hybrid of modal, propositional, and erotetic (question‐
Marnie Hughes‐Warrington
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Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 73-90, February 2025.
Abstract This article studies the use of lexical hedges and boosters in English‐medium Master's theses by L2 (Czech) graduates in English language and literature programmes. Drawing on the metadiscourse framework and adopting a corpus‐based approach, the study analyses the frequency, realisations, and function of hedges and boosters in a corpus of 48 ...
Olga Dontcheva‐Navratilova
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Online Instruction of Metadiscourse Markers on Iranian EFL Learners' Expository Writing: [PDF]

Research in English Language Pedagogy
Focusing on metadiscourse markers during EFL writing classes has garnered research attention, yet few studies were conducted on online expository writing.
Mozhdeh Tahmasbi, Majid Fatahipour, Neda Gharagozloo   +2 more
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Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Down the Rabbit Hole of Generative AI (Image Generated by the Authors in Midjourney) Abstract The latest mutation of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, is more than anything a technology of writing. It is a machine that can write. In a world‐historical frame, the significance of this cannot be understated.
Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope
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Indexical deprivation: The dominant link between cochlear implants and global English among Taiwanese deaf individuals

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 441-469, December 2024.
Abstract This paper develops the concept of “indexical deprivation” from the experiences of English learning in relation to cochlear implant use among Taiwanese deaf adults. Based on the framework of language ideological assemblage, this paper traces how institutional discourses and practices at different levels contribute to the indexicalization ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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Revisiting metadiscourse

Ibérica, 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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