The International speaker Dr Zakir Naik has been the target of many studies for his influential speeches. Analysing persuasive speeches can be tackled from different angles, amongst which is functional markers persuasion represented by Metadiscourse markers. Naik's have never analyzed a metadiscourse perspective. This paper aims to investigate types and functions in After transcribing videos ma...

The study of discourse markers has attracted the attention researchers as a facet linguistics since 19th century. focus research been based on theoretical status in relation to how they are used and for what reasons, explored different contexts settings; however, few studies have conducted context Saudi Arabia. This study, therefore, attempted look at use by senior university students majoring ...