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The Use of Metadiscourse in Turkish EFL Learners’ L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

open access: yesИнтеграция образования
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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Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesHistory 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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Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian Medical Articles: A Comparative Study

open access: yesJournal 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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Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis

open access: yesInternational 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

INTERPERSONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS USED IN MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The title of this thesis is Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers used in Michelle Obama Speech. It has two objectives. First, it is aimed at finding out the types of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in each sentences used in Michelle Obama Speech ...
ARYATI, SARI MEIGA
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Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesReading 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
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
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Indexical deprivation: The dominant link between cochlear implants and global English among Taiwanese deaf individuals

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

open access: yesJournal 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

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