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....

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...

Our purpose in this research is to quantitatively analyse how the communication of managerial knowledge realised articles written by experienced writers for publication and those produced graduate students as a course grade requirement. Specifically, we look at ways these construct their authorial identities (textually conveyed ‘voice’). To do so, combine Hyland’s (2008) interactional model voi...

For the recent decades, scholars have examined the use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs) paradigmatically through several comparative studies across varying languages and cultures. No study to date, however, has investigated a comprehensive, full-fledged comparison of the possible disparities among the native English writers (NEW), Iranian English writers (IEW), and Iranian Persian writers (IPW) ...

This paper explores the outcomes of training pragmatics identifying metadiscourse devices that are used by content teachers enrolled on a course leading to university qualification for teaching in English within context Spanish-speaking country. Specifically, I focus analysis frequencies textual and interactional lecturers during an online as Medium Instruction (EMI) with aim use how it could a...

Abstracts in research articles play a crucial role settling the impact of academic articles. However, despite abundance on discourse, variation its linguistic features among scholars from different cultures seems to have remained untouched. This corpus linguistics study presents comparative analysis interactional metadiscourse markers 96 article abstracts written English by both Russian and Spa...

Arguably, the Moroccan academic writing stratosphere has long been understudied. Such oversight is particularly discerning given how beneficial these studies can be for L2 writers of English. To this end, using Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse framework, current research interactional practices in a small corpus 15 applied linguistics article abstracts. These were collected from two Moroccan-based...

This paper describes a contrastive study of the Philippine and Indonesian newspaper editorials in order to see similarities differences their physical size terms words how Filipino editorialists utilized discourse strategies through metadiscourse markers. To this end, 30 Daily Inquirer Jakarta Post were examined lens rhetoric analysis. The investigation devices was grounded on framework Hyland ...

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...

A considerable body of research has investigated the use metadiscourse in academic writing different languages, and it is assumed literature that language- culture-specific. However, little how Arab writers interact with their readers Arabic articles (RAs). Thus, following Hyland’s (2005) models, this study explores interactional introductions 94 RAs totalling 88,350 words published between 201...