The paper presents a corpus-based study aimed at an analysis of ontological and terminological commitments in the discourse of specialist communities. The analyzed corpus contains the lectures delivered by the Nobel Prize winners in Physics and Economics. The analysis focuses on (a) the collocational use of automatically identified domain-specific terms and (b) a description of metadiscourse in...

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied....

This study is a corpus-based study of interactional metadiscourse in natural and social science master theses. For this purpose, 30 natural and social science master theses in six disciplines were randomly selected out of the library of five universities. Five master theses were selected in each discipline, in a period of six years (2010-2016).This study analyzed only the discussion and conclus...

this study investigated metadiscourse and its subcategories in english research articles (ras) written by nonnative (iranian) and native english writers from the two disciplines of applied linguistics and civil engineering. the study aimed at seeing whether language and discipline influenced the frequency of occurrence of metadiscourse elements in research articles. to this end, a sample of 120...

This qualitative-textual approach study aimed to determine the metadiscourse markers, examine writing styles, and investigate difference in styles used by male female secondary public-school teachers reflective essays from nine districts of Division Davao del Sur. A total 100 corpora were utilized this study, which 50 males females. Hyland Metadiscourse Model, Werlich Five Types Text Categoriza...

Despite widespread interest and research among applied linguists to explore metadiscourse use, very little is known of how metadiscourse resources have evolved over time in response to the historically developing practices of academic communities. Motivated by such an ambition, the current research drew on a corpus of 874315 words taken from three leading journals of applied linguistics in orde...

يستخدم الكتاب الأكاديميون مصطلح "الخطاب الشارح" في كتاباتهم لإقناع جمهورهم من خلال قيادتهم وإشراكهم النص كل مستويي الخطاب الشارح ، أي المستويات التوجيهية والتفاعلية. تسعى الدراسة الحالية جاهدة للتحقيق المستوى التوجيهي لادوات الرواية الأصلية "الحرف القرمزي". اضافة الى ذلك تم اختيار عشر عينات كبيانات ليتم تحليلها. تهدف إلى التحقق تكرارات ووظيفة اداة التوجيهي. ولتحقيق الأهداف يتم استخدام ثلاث فرضي...

Metadiscourse markers and their importance to academic writing are essential research subjects nowadays. The current corpus-based study aims at identifying interactional interactive metadiscourse in terms of frequency function the abstract section published articles applied linguistics developed by Algerian, Saudi, Native researchers. 20 for each group, with a total 60 have been randomly select...