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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"metadiscourse"”.
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Endophoric and evidential metadiscourse markers in literary studies: english vs lithuanian /
… examines the use of endophoric and evidential metadiscourse markers in English and Lithuanian literary studies, highlighting their role in structuring texts and conveying information sources. Endophoric markers, which refer to elements within the text, help organize the narrative and guide …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… and effectiveness of the factual message. Metadiscourse markers, members of the second linguistic category, guide the reader through the text and establish a means for the writer to interact or influence the reader. The use of metadiscourse in writing and speaking embodies the concept that …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… and effectiveness of the factual message. Metadiscourse markers, members of the second linguistic category, guide the reader through the text and establish a means for the writer to interact or influence the reader. The use of metadiscourse in writing and speaking embodies the concept that …
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Metadiscourse in oral discussions and persuasive essays of children exposed to collaborative reasoning
Speakers and writers use metadiscourse to guide, caution, and implore their audiences. Written metadiscourse is a term for self-reflective expressions that help writers negotiate interactional meanings, assist in expressing viewpoints and engagement with readers (Hyland, 2005), or convey attitudes …
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An exploration of rhetorical structure and interactional metadiscourse in architecture research articles (EdD TESOL)
… move and Hyland’s (2005a) model of interactional metadiscourse, the research provides a textual analysis of 14 research papers from The Journal of Architecture, which were published in 2010 and 2011. Key findings from the move analysis include the prevalence of nonepistemic introductions, the lack …
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Metadiscourse in the Academic Writing of EFL and ESL Arabic-Speaking Iraqi Graduate Students
<p>Metadiscourse is a universal rhetorical aspect of languages embodying the notion that the purpose of writing is not only informative; rather, it is a social act enhancing a writer-reader interaction and building effective communicative relationships, thereby creating a reader-friendly text. This …
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Gender and metadiscourse in British and Saudi newspaper column writing: male/female and native/non-native differences in language use
… growing interest in the pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse makes it a major domain in the research of discourse analysis and corpus-based analyses. This study extends the investigation of gender and metadiscourse to newspaper opinion columns. The study seeks to explore both gender and …
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Approaching Author Identity through First-person Pronouns and Metadiscourse : A study of opinion articles in US news media
This study combines metadiscourse research and sociolinguistic methods to establish which social variables influence the choice of metadiscourse resources containing first-person pronouns in US opinion news texts. The study has three main goals. The first goal is to establish which first-person …
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Rhetorical functions of language and media in health education : effects of metadiscourse and the Internet on readers' attitudes and knowledge about stress management
… written language differ primarily in the use of metadiscourse, language that aids interpretation of propositions. While research shows that metadiscourse aids in retention and attitude change in both print and speech, none exists to show whether this is true in a medium like the Internet, which …
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A cross-disciplinary genre analysis of conference presentations by novice and expert presenters
… and a micro-level description (i.e., the use of Metadiscourse) of conference presentations in two disciplines: Applied Linguistics and Computing. It also explores differences in the delivery of conference presentations with respect to the aforementioned macro and micro-level features by novices …
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Investigating Community in the Work of First-Year Core Writing Students
… their classroom community, differences in metadiscourse levels, and differences in student ethos and classroom interactions as noted by the instructor. I make use of Alfred Rovai's Classroom Community Scale, Ken Hyland's metadiscourse model, and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus in order …
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Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
… novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a metadiscourse about Irish identity that shatters the myth of authenticity at the heart of nationalism.
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Emerging Self-Identities and Emotions: An Exploratory Study of Ten Saudi Students’ English Writing Experiences
… including content, thematic, narrative and metadiscourse analyses. Findings indicate that participants shared a similar learning trajectory in Saudi Arabia that was generally negative. They associated emotionally negative states with their English learning experiences occurred in Saudi, …
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A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Communities in Applied Linguistics in Turkiye and the United States
… communities. By integrating corpus linguistics, metadiscourse, and stance, this thesis contributes to understanding writer identity in multilingual academic contexts, offering pedagogical implications for teaching academic writing across diverse linguistic backgrounds.
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Ethics in Technical Communication: Historical Context for the Human Radiation Experiments
… with this project reveals consistent patterns of metadiscourse, passive and nominal writing styles, and other rhetorical constructions, including negative language, redundancies, hedges, and intensifiers, that could lead a reader to misunderstand the writer's original ethical purpose. Ultimately …
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… in participation in science. Hyland’s 2005 metadiscourse model is used to identify and examine relevant linguistic choices in the sample set. This model considers two types of linguistic markers: interactive (used to guide the reader) and interactional (used to engage the reader). The sample …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… the counter genres DREAMers produce, and the metadiscourse surrounding those genres. I locate the migrant activist as the foremost expert on immigration policy and as the agent of discursive change. Because the genre-specific voice and style of legislative texts, such as the DREAM Act, …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
… written reports exhibited the increased use of metadiscourse markers including hedges, which likely resulted in careful explanations of propositional knowledge. These findings suggest that diverse discursive contexts afforded by sequenced tasks and access to varied semiotic resources can …