The present study looks into the variations in frequencies and pragmatic functions of metadiscourse markers known as boosters, particular, with regard to their verb forms. Three corpora have been compiled this end, covering fields engineering, medicine linguistics. were manually annotated for markers, boosters included, by a group annotators. A predetermined list was used annotation, but throug...

This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...

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...

The current study comparatively investigated the employment of metadiscourse items in 40 post-method sections/chapters research articles (RAs) and master’s dissertations (MAs) field applied linguistics. Utilizing Hyland’s (2005a) model analysing elements detected both sets texts, findings indicated that interactive features were more frequent texts than interactional items, dissertation subcorp...

The purpose of the study was to examine interactional linguistic resources in concession speeches Selected Political Leaders Ghana and United States America. past three decades have witnessed an increasing scholarly interest political discourse. Despite this, received limited attention. This study, therefore, comparatively analyzed delivered by John Dramani Mahama Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo ...

As part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in Gricean CP and similar models.  In order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...