“…The concept of metadiscourse, which was initially mentioned by Harris (1959) and finally defined by Schiffrin (1980), received some attention in the 1980s (e.g., Crismore, 1989;kopple, 1985;Williams, 2008) and interest in this domain has increased over the years (Hyland et al, 2022). The rising popularity of this topic over the last two decades has helped to make it a prominent domain of research in linguistics, which is studied from a variety of perspectives (D'Angelo & Consonni, 2020;Dong & Buckingham, 2018;Hyland, 2017).…”