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Meta discourse Use in Thesis Abstracts: A Case of M.Ed. English Majors

Nepal Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2020
A metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource that binds different parts of a text together and facilitates communication building relationships with audiences.
Gopal Prasad Pandey
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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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The Use of Metadiscourse in Turkish EFL Learners’ L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

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Introduction. The use of metadiscourse facilitates writer-reader interaction and text coherence. While the incorporation of these rhetorical features in student argumentative essays has been frequently stu­died, comparative investigations of ...
Ruhan Güçlü, Engin Evrim Önem
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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
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Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian Medical Articles: A Comparative Study

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background and purpose: Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) play a significant role in academic witting. They act as a bridge between writers and readers and make a text more understandable. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the use of MDMs in introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRaD) sections of English medical research articles (RAs)
Rahmatollah Soltani, Nasrin Shokrpour
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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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Metadiscourse markers in online promotions: exploring linguistic and visual metadiscourse in Jordanian school promotions

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Abstract This study examines the use of visual and linguistic metadiscourse markers in academic posters of private schools in Jordan and their role in persuasion. To this end, the study analyses a corpus of 40 advertisements for the use of visual and linguistic metadiscourse markers.
Aseel Alshbeekat, Anas Awwad
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