Abstract This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in first language (L1) and second (L2) English editorials. It also identifies how L1 L2 editorials differ these markers. To this end, utilizes Hyland’s (2019) model to analyse – based on a descriptive approach 80 collected from two highly reputed newspapers: The Guardian Jordan Times , distributed evenly. data were an...

This study employs discourse analysis and corpus to investigate the use of reflexive metadiscourse in national addresses delivered by three leaders, one from Thailand, Myanmar, Pakistan, during periods democratic reform their respective countries. The 129,460 running words was constructed randomly selecting fifteen each leaders’ address pools. analyzed coded with tags classify functions employe...