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The Metadiscourse Markers in Good Undergraduate Writers’ Essays Corpus

International Journal of English Linguistics, 2017
Good student writers are often seen as a benchmark to the weaker writers. In the area of metadiscourse in students’ writing, previous studies show that good undergraduate writers use more metadiscourse markers as compared to the weaker writers. However, there are limited previous studies which observe the use of metadiscourse among Malaysian ESL ...
Amaal Fadhlini Binti Mohamed, Radzuwan Bin Ab Rashid   +1 more
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Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

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
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian MA Applied Linguistics Theses [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2015
One of the most salient written academic outputs a university student has the opportunity to create is a thesis which is regarded as “a complex student-produced research genre” (Lee & Casal, 2014).
Saeed Rezaei, Masoumeh Estaji, Mahdi Hasanpour   +2 more
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Revisiting Metadiscourse Markers of the Language Learners in Academic Writing [PDF]

Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2017
This study which explores successful and less-successful learners' comparative essays written by university students learning Turkish, which is based on two corpora of student writing: 20 successful essays and 20 less-successful essays in Turkish. Using Hyland's (2005) model of interactional metadiscourse, these papers were compared to examine the ...
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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
wiley   +1 more source

African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra

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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Investigating interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English M.A. theses: The case of transition markers

Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 2019
This study aimed to know which types of transition markers (i.e., and, since, hence, in addition and then) were more frequently used in English M.A theses. To do this study, the researcher collected 30 English M.A theses which were written by Iranian students from Azad University of Kermanshah. Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal model of metadiscourse was
Hosna Rasooyar, Esmail Hosseini
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METADISCOURSE MARKERS WRITTEN IN INTRODUCTION SECTION OF FINAL PROJECT OF UNIMUS EFL LEARNERS

English Review: Journal of English Education, 2019
Metadiscourse marker is one of determining indicators of the quality of the writers’ writing. Metadiscourse markers enable the writers to interact with the readers effectively.
Siti Aimah, Dodi Mulyadi, Muhimatul Ifadah   +2 more
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Use of metadiscourse for identity construction in tourist city publicity：A comparative study of Chinese and Australian social media discourse. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Huang J, Xiao W, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Metadiscourse in Academic Writing of Pre-University Arab Students at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
There is lack of studies on the use of metadiscourse markers; especially amongst international students studying in Malaysia and Malaysia are receiving scores of international students particularly from the Middle East annually.
Khairul Zakaria Muhamad, Abdul Malik Faridah   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source