Communicative Functions of Code Glosses in Academic Discourse

A considerable amount of research has already established that academic writing is an interactive accomplishment, the success which largely depends on appropriate writer-reader relationship. Yet, nature this relationship been subject few studies. Also scarce are studies how writers address needs their readers and so, through elaboration, manage interactions with them. Drawing a corpus 68 articles (RAs) from field applied linguistics, study explores experienced (EWs) novice (NWs) elaborate ideas in RAs to readers’ needs, so doing, relations Analysis revealed reformulation exemplification, complex features writing, serve important rhetorical functions. The results also show these two groups differently, differing type, number, (un)even distribution, use code glosses. These discussed, pedagogical implications offered.