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Metadiscourse markers in academic texts.

, 2022
This Master's Final Degree Project aimed to investigate the use of metadiscourse markers as a means of expressing the author's position in academic texts from a cross-lingual and cross-disciplinary perspective. The following goals were set to achieve the
Vaičienė, Ingrida,
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BOOSTERS AS INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS: A CORPUSDRIVEN COMPARATIVE STUDY

IEDSR Association, 2021
This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category of interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, and commitment into the texts. One hundred articles are composed of the corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), and 50 from native ...
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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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The Use of Metadiscourse in Turkish EFL Learners’ L1 and L2 Argumentative Essays

Интеграция 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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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 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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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
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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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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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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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