A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse Elements in Research Articles Written by Iranian Applied Linguistics and Engineering Writers in English

Pooresfahani, Ailin Firoozian; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Vahidnia, Fateme

doi:10.5430/elr.v1n1p88

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“…These results were in line with the results of the study by Firoozian, Khajavy, and Vahidnia (2012). In both corpora, interactive and interactional features were used as it was proved in this study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Exploring Interactive and Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Discussion Sections of Social and Medical Science Articles

Mina¹,

Biria

2017

IJREE

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Metadiscourse markers are used as one of the tools which make writing more effective in social environment and are regarded as one of the most important features in communication among people for expressing the information through different linguistic expressions with cohesive and logical constructions. Accordingly, the present study aimed to identify interactive and interactional metadiscourse in a targeted sample of 100 English research articles written by Iranian writers utilizing Hyland's taxonomy. The sample included the discussion sections of randomly selected articles with 70000 running words published between 2010 and 2016. The overall findings disclosed that, in interactive metadiscourse category, the use of transitions, frame markers, and evidentials in social science articles were more frequent than those in medical science texts. The results further revealed that the use of endophoric markers and code glosses were almost the same. In interactional metadiscourse corpora, however, the findings demonstrated that writers used hedges, boosters, and self-mentions more frequently in medical science articles compared to those in social sciences. Comparatively, the discussion sections in social science texts contained a higher percentage of engagement markers. It was also found out that there was no significant difference in the use of attitude markers in both disciplines. Notably, the social science authors seemingly preferred to employ interactive metadiscourse markers more, while the medical science authors used interactional metadiscourse markers more frequently in their research articles.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Exploring Interactive and Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Discussion Sections of Social and Medical Science Articles

Mina¹,

Biria

2017

IJREE

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“…Text-based studies of metadiscourse in business texts have been confined to academic research articles (Cao & Hu, 2014;Dueñas, 2007Dueñas, , 2010Hyland, 2005c;Hyland & Tse, 2005a, 2005bKhedri, Heng, & Ebrahimi, 2013;Murillo, 2012;Pooresfahani, Khajavy, & Vahidnia, 2012;Sultan, 2011), master's theses and dissertations (Hyland, 2004;Samraj, 2008), and workplace contexts (Bargiela-Chiappini, 2009;Camiciottoli, 2010Camiciottoli, , 2011Carrió-Pastor & Calderón, 2015;Hyland, 1998a). Cao and Hu (2014) compared the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in 120 quantitative and qualitative research articles across three social science subfields: applied linguistics, education, and psychology.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in International Postgraduate Business Students’ Texts

Alyousef

2015

Sage Open

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Metadiscourse analysis reveals the way writers engage with different texts and communicate with each other. Examining these linguistic resources is important because they play a vital role in maximizing the learning experiences of students in the Master's program in Accounting. Yet, there is a lack of research investigating these features in a key topic in the Principles of Finance course: management reports that encompass tables and graphs. This study explores the use of metadiscourse markers in three multimodal management reports written by 10 international Master's of Accounting students. It employs Hyland and Tse's model and Hyland's model for the multimodal analysis of metadiscourse markers in finance texts. The findings show a high frequency of interactive and interactional markers in the orthographic texts compared with a lack of implicit interactive markers and a high frequency of implicit interactional markers in the tables and graphs. Implications for the teaching of English for Business Purposes (EBP) are discussed. Keywords metadiscourse analysis, multimodal business discourse, linguistic analysis, interactive and interactional markers

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“…Academic writing has lately been taken into consideration by a great number of researchers, with focus on the genre of the research article (RA) which is a growing area that has aroused great interest in the last two decades (Firoozian Pooresfahani, Khajavy, & Vahidnia, 2012). According to Hyland, (2004) the writers' ability to control the level of personality in their texts, to assert unanimity with readers, to assess their material, and to acknowledge other views, is now identified as a significant feature of successful academic writing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation of Metadiscursive Manner Markers across Sciences and Languages in Research Articles

Sadolahi¹,

Abdi²

2015

IJLC

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This study investigated the distribution of metadiscursive manner markers across English and Persian languages in different parts of scientific research articles including abstracts, introductions, methodologies, and results & discussions across human and basic sciences in six disciplines consisting of psychology, sociology, education, biology, chemistry, medicine. For this purpose, 108 recently published articles including 54 English articles and 54 Persian articles were selected from reliable and valid journals. Three journals from each discipline and then three articles from each journal were randomly selected to build the corpus of the study to find out the distribution of metadiscursive manner markers including transitions, frame markers and code glosses in research articles, and also differences among HS and BS based on cooperative principle model (Abdi, et al, 2010). After getting raw and balanced summary tables of metadiscursive manner markers distribution for both English and Persian languages, results showed that there are significant differences between English and Persian HS and BS articles in the use of transitions, code glosses, and frame markers and also between English and Persian languages in general.

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A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse Elements in Research Articles Written by Iranian Applied Linguistics and Engineering Writers in English

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring Interactive and Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Discussion Sections of Social and Medical Science Articles

Exploring Interactive and Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Discussion Sections of Social and Medical Science Articles

An Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in International Postgraduate Business Students’ Texts

An Investigation of Metadiscursive Manner Markers across Sciences and Languages in Research Articles

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