Metadiscourse is now a widely used term in academic discourse analysis. How academics employ rhetorical devices to structure their texts, establish reader-writer interaction and stamp authorial stance regarding the conventions of disciplines, cultures, genres has been subject many studies. Despite growing prominence term, however, some features it, one which frame markers, have gone unnoticed. ...

Abstract There is very little research on the use of metadiscourse markers in abstracts across different disciplines (especially a single study) undergraduates as novice researchers, and qualitative has been done topic EFL ESL contexts altogether. Thus, purpose this study to examine undergraduates’ social sciences three (English Language Communication, Mass Psychology) Faculty Social Sciences L...

Discourse markers have been studied extensively in linguistics and communication studies. Its use is very helpful understanding the message conveyed, both formal informal situations. This study examines discourse used by non-native speakers Good Morning America Talk Show. Unveil types their functions, this uses a qualitative descriptive method identifying of markers. The data were taken from co...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information. Parascientific digital communication pursued different avenues, from mainstream media news to social networking, at times combined. Likewise, citizens have developed new discourse practices, with readers as active participants who claim authority. Based on a corpus 500 reader comments Guardian, we analyse how build th...

BACKGROUND Kneeling following total knee arthroplasty can be a difficult task, impairing the activities of patients to varying degrees. Little is known about the biomechanical effects of kneeling following total knee replacement. The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of kneeling on patellofemoral joint contact areas and pressures, knee joint reaction force, and patellar kinema...

To develop an index of gait instability from electromyographic information, we made observations on infants from the time they first began to walk independently at about one year of age until around three years of age. From our findings we obtained the following criteria. (1) Very unstable gait: As seen in a child within the first month of learning to walk the vastus medialis is active in the l...