A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse in English Travel Blogs

Huang, Ying; Wang, Huijian; Tang, Junhong

doi:10.4236/ojml.2020.106048

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“…Studies have nevertheless found that interactive metadiscourse, especially self-mentions and reader addresses, have prominent functions in online genres such as opinion blogs (Biri, 2017), travel blogs (Huang et al, 2020), and online customer reviews (Vásquez, 2015). Therefore, the study of reflexive metadiscourse should also be expanded to informal genres.…”

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Metadiscourse in Social Media: A Reflexive Framework

Biri

2021

Metadiscourse in Digital Communication

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Because existing metadiscourse theory is largely based on professional writing, this chapter presents a framework for studying reflexive metadiscourse in informal writing on social media. Based on analysis of English-language text posts on three social media platforms-Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr-the criteria of reflexivity are reviewed in light of dialogical social media settings, where writers manage discourses that involve multiple messages and participants. The analysis also considers the impact of platform layout and affordances on the structure and context of the ongoing discourses. A frequency analysis of personal and impersonal metadiscourse shows that reflexive metadiscourse is most frequent on Reddit and least frequent on Twitter, but the frequency varies depending on the topic of conversation and communicative goals present.

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Metadiscourse in Social Media: A Reflexive Framework

Biri

2021

Metadiscourse in Digital Communication

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“…According to Hyland and Jiang (2022), metadiscourse has emerged as one of the most popular methods for examining texts, as evidenced by 29,500 publications containing the term 'metadiscourse' that is returned by a Google Scholar search, 11,000 of which were published in the recent five years. From the last decade, researchers have investigated metadiscourse markers in various genres which includes academic writing (Hyland 2010, Alshahrani 2015, Gezegİn and Melike 2020, persuasive writing (Noorian and Biria 2017, Korau and Aliyu 2020), research articles (Gillaerts and Van de Velde 2010, Sultan 2011, Cao and Hu 2014, Salek 2014, writing of the EFL learners (Jalilifar andAlipour 2007, Rad 2020), news reports (Boshrabadi et al 2014), news articles (Yazdani et al 2014), news editorials (Kuhi and Mojood 2014), opinion columns ( Dafouz-Milne 2008), opinion writings on online platforms (Biri 2018), travel vlogs (Huang et al 2020), advertising (Fuertes-Olivera et al 2001) etc.…”

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“…Huang et al (2020) investigated the interactional metadiscourse in English travel blogs. This study explored how travel bloggers use interactional metadiscourse in their blogs to interact with their readers.…”

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Digital Comments on News: A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Devices used in the United Kingdom, India and the United States of America

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In the course of writing, metadiscourse allows a writer to guide, direct and interact with their readers as it inherits the writer's intention, stance, thoughts, and feelings.The metadiscourse markers allow the readers to comprehend the writer's judgement and evaluation of the writer's target audience alongside the idea of the context in use.Hence, metadiscourse has emerged as one of the most popular methods for examining texts and a prevalent research topic since it was first brought to prominence in the early 1980s, continuing to its current popularity.With the rapid digital progression, nowadays, people are highly interested in digital newspapers, which are the online version of printed newspapers. The prime reason for the attraction towards these digital newspapers is that people get a scope to share their opinions in the form of comments after reading particular news. For this increasing interest of people in digital newspapers, emerging newspapers, as well as well-established and prestigious newspapers, are creating an online version of their printed newspapers.Our study focuses on digital comments (specifically, news comments), where the commenters express their views, opinions, and thoughts through their comments and by replying to the previous comments in the same thread. This doctoral dissertation aims at the exploration and comparison of metadiscourse markers on digital comments of the commenters. It upholds our endeavor of conducting a novel work in the field of language research. Moreover, it can pave the way for future language researchers as well.In the absence of a benchmark corpus for English news comments, we compiled our corpus by taking into account three popular domains (namely-sports, politics, and entertainment) and two different political ideologies (namely-left-wing and rightwing). We collected 2034 digital comments and a total of 2004 replies from 64 news articles from 12 leading English newspapers of three different countries (the United Kingdom, India, and the United States of America) belonging to three distinct continents (Europe, Asia, and America). In this work, we examine the use of metadiscourse v vi markers based on four aspects: different domains, English language proficiency, different geo-location, and different political ideologies. Based on these four aspects, this study examines the similarities and contrasts among writers (in our case, commenters), which aids in understanding the writers' usage of metadiscourse markers. In this dissertation, in the context of English digital news comments, for the first time, we present an in-depth quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of metadiscourse markers (interactional and interactive).We conclude that the commenters use metadiscourse markers differently across different domains; however, the use of metadiscourse may be affected by the commenters' location, language, and political ideologies. ResumenDurant l'escriptura, el metadiscurs permet que un escriptor guiï, dirigeixi i interactuï amb els seus lectors, ja que hereta la ...

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