The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper editorials (written in English and Persian) culled from 10 elite newspapers in America and Iran. Bas...

1. introduction hyland (2005) defines metadiscourse as a “cover term for the self-reflective expression used to negotiate interactional meanings in a text, assisting the writer (or speaker) to express a viewpoint and engage with reader as members of a particular community” (p. 37). hyland has admitted that these rhetorical features convey the relation between the writer, text and reader which i...

This study analysed interactional metadiscourse markers on 40 expository essays by ESL learners from hard and soft science courses based table of Hyland (2005). The aimed to examine whether both groups used the same amount type, in different course differed their selected metadiscourse. There were some differences types groups. Soft produced more features they interpretative meanwhile very asse...

This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, commitment into texts. One hundred articles are composed corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), native papers. Two were under 4 types boosters: modals (type 1), adjectives adverbs 2)...

The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...

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The study aimed to investigate the frequency and type of stance engagement features in each move book reviews soft hard disciplines according Hyland’s (2005) Interactional Metadiscourse taxonomy. A corpus 102 published by 30 first quality journals 6 was randomly selected analyzed. results indicated a significant difference between terms markers. Furthermore, Move 2 (Outlining) enjoyed highest f...

Metadiscourse markers are analyzed in many different languages detail. This study focuses on two interactional metadiscourse markers: attitude and self-mentions Turkish RA abstracts. In the study, scientific area, namely social sciences natural compared regarding use of There questions to answer. The first one is related features abstracts defined literature. Since as an objective summery artic...

To present a skillfully written abstract, an author should apply some strategies. One of them is the application Metadiscourse Markers, which provides readers with linguistic features that will help quickly get gist entire research. Studies have examined metadiscourse markers in abstracts theses and published article journals by Indonesian, but only few used corpus-based approach analyzed error...