CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC ANALYSIS OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS OF THE PHILIPPINE AND INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS

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 (2005). Regarding length editorials, data revealed that employed more compared ones. findings also show both groups used interactional category, especially subcategory attitude markers writing, although frequencies counts different. contain all subcategories editorials. may indicate as genre, have generic feature metadicourse markers, namely By using effectively, make clear stance particular public issues try persuade readers accept opinion editors. shows are reader-oriented texts.