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Metadiscourse: Mapping Interactions in Academic Writing
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Metadiscourse in the argument presented here is based on a view of communication as social engagement and in academic contexts reveals the ways writers project themselves into their discourse to signal their understandings of their material and their audience. In this paper I explore how advanced second language writers deploy these resources in a corpus of 240 doctoral and masters dissertations totalling four million words. The analysis suggests that writers use language to offer a credible representation of themselves and their work in different fields, and thus how metadiscourse can be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social distinctiveness of disciplinary communities.
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“In other words, all metadiscourse is interpersonal in that it takes account of the reader‟s knowledge, textual experiences and processing needs and that it provides writers with an armoury of rhetorical appeals to achieve this (Hyland & Tse 2004).”
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“The corpus was searched electronically for some 300 items which commonly perform metadiscourse functions in academic writing (see appendix in Hyland 2005 for a list of these) using MonoConc Pro, a text analysis and concordance programme.”
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- Authors
- Hyland, K.
- Venue
- Nordic Journal of English Studies
- Published
- 2010-06-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- S2
- Pages
- 125-143
- ISSN
- 1502-7694 (ISSN-L)
- 1654-6970
- OpenAlex
- W1596592093
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 39.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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