the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. one such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...

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. ...

The study aimed to investigate the frequency and type of stance engagement features in each move book reviews soft hard disciplines according Hyland’s (2005) Interactional Metadiscourse taxonomy. A corpus 102 published by 30 first quality journals 6 was randomly selected analyzed. results indicated a significant difference between terms markers. Furthermore, Move 2 (Outlining) enjoyed highest f...

This paper addresses issues relating to the definition and non-expert understanding of metadiscursive acts. We present existing theory on spoken metadiscourse, focusing on one taxonomy that defines metadiscursive concepts in a functional manner, rather than formally. A crowdsourcing annotation task is set up with two main goals: (a) build a corpus of metadiscourse, and (b) assess the understand...

Bilimsel söylem, yazar ile okuyucular arasında etkileşimin gerçekleştirildiği alanlar sağlama eğilimindedir. Üstsöylem, tarafların ilişki kurup etkileşime geçmesini sağlayan araçlar setidir. Metnin tutarlığının korunmasını sağlayan, ve okuyucu arasındaki odaklanan dilsel özelliklerdir. Üstsöylem belirleyicileri yazarlar, metinde kendilerini yansıtarak konumlarını belirleyebilir, iletişimsel niy...

This study aimed to explore the function and frequency of textual metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in scientific English and Persian texts. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of textual markers characterizing the selected genre, four different textbooks, two written in English and two in Persian were analyzed to identify the textual metadiscourse categories (including logical marker...

Medical discourse has recently attracted much scholarly attention. However, few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts, particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu’s (1997) framework, the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the I...

The implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. One such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...

Metadiscourse has been defined as the discourse used by writers to help their readers connect, interpret and evaluate attitudes towards referential material presented (Vande Kopple, 2002). In his study on CEO’s letters, Hyland (1998b) examined metadiscourse manifestation of a writer’s linguistic rhetorical presence in text looked at persuasive nature business communication. ...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...