With regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. The first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. The second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...

The paper explores the use of metadiscourse markers by L1 speakers English and proficient L2 in opinion articles. data for analysis consists 90 articles from most popular newspapers USA, UK Ukraine, each variety represented with 30 classification is primarily based on Hyland’s taxonomy a more detailed approach to identifying metadiscoursive occurrences. In addition investigating common patterns...

This paper describes a contrastive study of the Philippine and Indonesian newspaper editorials in order to see similarities differences their physical size terms words how Filipino editorialists utilized discourse strategies through metadiscourse markers. To this end, 30 Daily Inquirer Jakarta Post were examined lens rhetoric analysis. The investigation devices was grounded on framework Hyland ...

This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of comm...