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Projecting Cultural Identity through Metadiscourse Marking; A Comparison of Persian and English Research Articles [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2009 Writing projects are socially-situated identities. The rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities.
Reza Abdi
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Personal Metadiscourse Features on TED Talks by British Speakers [PDF]
, 2021 Shanty A.Y.P.S Duwila, Yeni Probowati
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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Exemplification in student essay writing: A study of learner corpus of essay writing (LCEW)
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1514-1532, November 2024.Abstract In academic writing, exemplification plays a crucial role in contextualizing complex ideational material through instances the readers can understand. In addition to illustrating ideas through concrete instances, the act of providing examples serves the purpose of helping the readers grasp the writer's intentions.
Chintalapalli Vijayakumar
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 64-84, September 2024.Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1119-1128, August 2024.Abstract Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a widely used psychiatric treatment; however, it remains contentious. It is therefore important that people are provided with accurate and balanced information before consenting to ECT. The aim of this study was to audit and analyse the content and language of ECT information sheets used in local health ...
Timothy Wand, Sophie Isobel, Holly Kemp
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Metadiscourse Analysis of Geography Textbooks for Basic Education in Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Journal of Islamic Studies, 1991 This study identifies the extent of metadiscourse usage in all geography textbook for theelementary and middle schools in Saudi Arabia. For the purpose of analysing the metadiscourse usage,selected texts have been identified.
Muwafig F. Al-Ruwaili
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“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 134-149, February 2024.Abstract The conference abstract (CA) is an important promotional academic genre that allows scholars to introduce their research to their peers as a conference presentation if the proposal is accepted by the reviewing gatekeepers. However, few studies have explored the CA in specific disciplines and no studies have examined this genre from an ...
Pedro Martín, Sally Burgess
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2010 One of the basic functions to which language is put is to comment on discourse or on language itself. Reflexivity in language occurs in everyday discourse as well as in specialised discourse, such as academic papers or lectures.
Annelie Ädel
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