This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

Research in academic writing has revealed a strong tendency on the part of writers to interactively communicate their scientific findings with their readers. In doing so, the writers should take a position while arguing their propositions. This interaction as proposed by Hyland (2005b) takes places having two sides of stance and engagement. This study targeted the stance component of writer-rea...

Despite widespread interest and research among applied linguists to explore metadiscourse use, very little is known of how metadiscourse resources have evolved over time in response to the historically developing practices of academic communities. Motivated by such an ambition, the current research drew on a corpus of 874315 words taken from three leading journals of applied linguistics in orde...

Writers’ stance can be communicated by various linguistic means in both English and Chinese. Previous research (Camiciottoli 2004; Neff 2004; Xu 2007; Liang 2008) shows that L2 learners of English, even for advanced learners, are not capable of taking their stance appropriately in English. This study takes a contrastive approach to examine the stance markers in 122 pieces of Chinese learners’ E...

Stance is a key and problematic domain for effective English Academic Purposes (EAP) reading writing. Insufficient awareness of stance, cultural attitudes about it, poor teaching have been identified as underlying sources stance-related difficulties. Focusing on stance may thus be pivotal reading-to-write lens to improve academic literacy. However, few studies investigated pre-service teachers’...

The present study was an attempt to illustrate the interaction between writers and readers. Conveying of the writers’ voice, stance, and interaction with reader was put forward within this paradigm. Being a good academic writer is highly related to the use of these strategies.  Adopting a position and persuading readers of claims are very important. This study was aimed at showing th...