Writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. In this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

This study analysed interactional metadiscourse markers on 40 expository essays by ESL learners from hard and soft science courses based table of Hyland (2005). The aimed to examine whether both groups used the same amount type, in different course differed their selected metadiscourse. There were some differences types groups. Soft produced more features they interpretative meanwhile very asse...

Metadiscourse markers are analyzed in many different languages detail. This study focuses on two interactional metadiscourse markers: attitude and self-mentions Turkish RA abstracts. In the study, scientific area, namely social sciences natural compared regarding use of There questions to answer. The first one is related features abstracts defined literature. Since as an objective summery artic...

This study examined disciplinary rhetoric in research articles, focusing on different traditions in structuring text discourses from a metadiscourse-move analytic approach. The corpus consisted of 72 research article Introductions (RAIs): 36 in applied linguistics and 36 in chemistry. Swales’ CARS model (1990, 2004) and Hyland’s interpersonal model of metadiscourse (2005) were used as analytica...

The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper editorials (written in English and Persian) culled from 10 elite newspapers in America and Iran. Bas...

When assessing student essays, educators look for the students’ ability to present and pursue well-reasoned and strong arguments. Such scholarly argumentation is often articulated by rhetorical metadiscourse. Educators will be necessarily examining metadiscourse in students’ writing as signals of the intellectual moves that make their reasoning visible. Therefore students and educators could be...

Metadiscourse is essential in creating and organizing persuasive discourse, taking into account the norms expectations of parties involved. The purpose this study to explore use interactional (interpersonal) metadiscourse markers dentistry case reports, analyze their functions within text, evaluate effectiveness establishing writer's credibility authority managing textual interactions. research...

This paper targets an understanding of how metadiscourse functions in spoken language. Starting from a metadiscourse taxonomy, a set of TED talks is annotated via crowdsourcing and then a lexical grade level predictor is used to map the distribution of the distinct discourse functions of the taxonomy across levels. The paper concludes showing how speakers use these functions in presentational s...

In this article, researchers set out to discover the metadiscourse markers in research articles written by both native and non-native English speakers. To this end, a total number of twenty research articles published by Iranian and native English speakers in highly reputed journals on Arts and Humanities domains were randomly selected from major databases including Science Direct, Noormagz, an...