This article describes a contrastive study on rhetorical differences between Italian and English sales promotion letters. It is assumed that cultural differences affect discourse genres traditionally considered as standardized, ritual or even formulaic, written business communication being a case in point. It was our goal to investigate how information is presented and what rhetorical strategie...

Metadiscourse is the language writers use to guide their readers through texts and organise arguments. This can take form of phrases, for example, ‘this essay will discuss’, or ‘in conclusion’, individual words such as ‘firstly’ ‘therefore’. study aims determine how undergraduate students develop metadiscourse over first two years at a UK university investigate whether related grade that text r...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the discourse practice microteaching in a teaching community consisting mainly students pursuing teacher certification English as an Additional Language southern Brazil. relies on qualitative methods data generation and analysis well framework interactional sociolinguistics. Results suggest highly complex practice, with recurring pattern. Additionally, th...

This study examines whether the perceived boundary between in-role and extra-role behaviors varies depending on workplace conditions, emphasizing how interactional justice influences an employee’s role definitions. We collect data through a questionnaire survey and adopt Tobit regressions for hypothesis testing. The study results indicate that perceived interactional justice enlarges the breadt...

This paper describes metaTED – a freely available corpus of metadiscursive acts in spoken language collected via crowdsourcing. Metadiscursive acts were annotated on a set of 180 randomly chosen TED talks in English, spanning over different speakers and topics. The taxonomy used for annotation is composed of 16 categories, adapted from Ädel (2010). This adaptation takes into account both the ma...

This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: BKnowledge Building talk^ (KB talk) involving teacher-student discussions and the use of Knowledge Forum, an onl...

Throughout the social sciences, theorists have grappled with the problem of interdependence; what is the connection between the social world of individuals, groups and their interactions, and that of complex organizations, institutions, and social structures? This problem is still being investigated in sociology, where is it called by some the “micro-macro” problem and by others problem of the ...