Metadiscourse is an important concept in the field of discourse analysis, but related studies have been confined to various genres written discourse. There little research on persuasive function metadiscourse speech. This paper adopts a data analysis method collect keynote speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping at opening ceremonies 1th 4th China International Import Expo and Jinping’s New Ye...

This study aimed to investigate gender variations in letters of recommendation. It used the metadiscourse theory with respect following resources: hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement and self-mentions. The findings showed that hedges devices were least frequent both groups, but at same time more by males compared female recommenders. Boosters, on other hand, highly corpora and, like ...

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...

With regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. The first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. The second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...

The paper explores the use of metadiscourse markers by L1 speakers English and proficient L2 in opinion articles. data for analysis consists 90 articles from most popular newspapers USA, UK Ukraine, each variety represented with 30 classification is primarily based on Hyland’s taxonomy a more detailed approach to identifying metadiscoursive occurrences. In addition investigating common patterns...

This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of comm...