A Contrastive Study on Metadiscourse Elements Used in Humanities vs. Non Humanities across Persian and English

Zarei, Gholam Reza; Mansoori, Sara

doi:10.5539/elt.v4n1p42

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“…The general trend to avoid personal pronouns in Persian academic discourse has also been confirmed in subsequent studies of personal pronouns as part of metadiscoursal devices by Zarei andMansoori (2011), Fatemi andMirshojaee (2012) and Taki and Jafarpour (2012). Taki and Jafarpour (2012) notice that Persian writers tend not to use self-mentions and when they do, they more readily employ the word 'the researcher' to refer to themselves, while Fatemi and Mirshojaee's advice for Iranian writers is to "move away from positivist impersonalized text performance towards more socialist presentation of knowledge claims and writers' stance and voice" (Fatemi and Mirshojaee 2012: 261).…”

Section: Self-reference In Research Articles Across Europe and Asiamentioning

confidence: 55%

Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: a review of studies

Mur-Dueñas¹,

Šinkūnienė²

2016

Brno Studies in English

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Numerous cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary studies have looked at the manifestation of author stance in academic texts. One of the most recurrent areas of contrast has been the use of personal pronouns across linguistic and disciplinary cultures. This paper aims at reviewing previous research on self-reference in research articles taking an intercultural perspective. It focuses on 22 studies which report on results regarding this stance feature in 13 lingua-cultural contexts (Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Spanish). They have been extracted from relevant publications in the fields of English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes over the past 25 years (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012). A close analysis of this research highlights different cultural trends in constructing writer-reader relationships in this academic genre and reveals important methodological issues across different studies. This review article also has implications for English as a lingua franca (cf. Mauranen 2012) as used in international publications.

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Section: Self-reference In Research Articles Across Europe and Asiamentioning

confidence: 55%

Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: a review of studies

Mur-Dueñas¹,

Šinkūnienė²

2016

Brno Studies in English

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“…This paper employs Hyland (2005) model as an established framework for the analysis of metatextual and interpersonal items of metadiscourse in academic writing (e.g., Bruce, 2009;Hyland, 2010;Zarei & Mansoori, 2011). One of the innovations of Hyland's model seems to be that it classifies citation as a part of metadiscourse (cf.…”

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Metadiscourse in the introductions of PhD theses and research articles

Kawase

2015

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

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a b s t r a c tPrevious studies have indicated that the introductions of PhD theses and research articles are similar in their rhetorical features. In contrast, it has been suggested that metadiscourse as a rhetorical device is constructed in a different manner in these texts. However, very few studies have sought to empirically validate this assumption. This paper investigates how research writers construct metadiscourse in the introductions of their PhD theses and subsequently published research articles. The analysis shows that the majority of the writers make greater use of metadiscourse in their article introductions. The most significant changes include greater use of phrases referring to previous research, less reference to other parts of the text, and still less use of phrases signalling authorial presence. Close examination reveals that these variations derive from genre-specific features, including that writers of PhD thesis introductions present previews of the subsequent chapters. This paper closes by arguing that the variations can also be ascribed to the nature of the PhD thesis as an educational genre and that of research articles as a professional genre in which writers need to survive severe competition to get their manuscripts published.

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“…In another study, Zarei and Mansoori (2011) investigated the use of metadiscourse in two disciplines (applied linguistics vs. computer engineering) within two languages (Persian and English). Analysis of data showed that the metadiscursive resources used differently both within and between the two languages.…”

Section: Metadiscourse Investigationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Pooresfahani¹,

Khajavy²,

Vahidnia³

2012

ELR

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This study seeks to investigate the use of interactive and interactional metadiscoursal features in two disciplines, applied linguistics and engineering. The analysis is based on a corpus of eight research articles from the engineering discipline and eight from applied linguistics. The selected corpus was analyzed through the model suggested by Hyland (2005). Results of the study showed that both disciplines used interactive and interactional features in their research articles. In both groups, writers used an interactive metadiscourse more than an interactional one. Also, there were significant differences on the overall frequency of metadiscourse features as well as on the particular occurrence of some categories in interactive and interactional features.

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A Contrastive Study on Metadiscourse Elements Used in Humanities vs. Non Humanities across Persian and English

Cited by 36 publications

References 20 publications

Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: a review of studies

Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: a review of studies

Metadiscourse in the introductions of PhD theses and research articles

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

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