Interactional Metadiscourse in Turkish Postgraduates� Academic Texts: A Comparative Study of How They Introduce and Conclude

Akbaş, Erdem

doi:10.26634/jelt.2.3.1964

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“…Akbaş (2012a) revealed that Turkish academic authors of English used attitude markers 3.6 times per 1000 words while American authors employed 6.2 times per 1000 words. Özdemir and Longo (2014) reported that American students used higher frequencies of attitude markers (140.5 per 10.000 words) than Turkish students (53.9 per 10.000 words).…”

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“…(Hyland, 1999;Lafuente-Milan, 2010;Akbaş, 2012a). Hyland (1999) examined the ways that writers employ to present themselves and their readers in their texts in a corpus of research articles in eight disciplines.…”

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“…Hyland (1999) defines stance as "the ways that writers project themselves into their texts to communicate their integrity, credibility, involvement, and a relationship to their subject matter and their readers" (p. 101). Biber (2006) labels stance as the expression of "many different kinds of personal feelings and Nevertheless, MD on the construal of authorial stance in academic genres has received a passing mention (Akbaş, 2012a;Hyland, 1999;Lafuente-Milan, 2010). As Pho (2008) suggests the investigation of linguistic features across genres may give a fuller picture of authorial stance.…”

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Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

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2018

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The authorial stance in academic genres is conveyed with the use of linguistic conventions of disciplines, one of which is metadiscourse. The aim of this study was to compare the use of interactional metadiscourse features (IMDMs) by native academic authors of English (NAAEs) and Turkish-speaking academic authors of English (TAAEs) for the construal of their stance in their doctoral dissertations. In a corpus of 120 doctoral dissertations, IMDMs were analyzed according to Hyland's (2005) taxonomy by using Wordsmith Tools 6.0. Log likelihood statistics was conducted to see whether there was a statistically significant difference between these two groups in their use of IMDMs in terms of frequency and variety. A statistically significant underuse of IMDMs by Turkish-speaking academic authors of English regarding the overall use of 5 subcategories of IMDMs was found.

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Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

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2018

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“…In another study on the use of metadiscourse markers by Turkish academic writers in Turkish and English book reviews, Bal-Gezegin (2016) found that the total number of interpersonal metadiscourse features was considerably higher in the English corpus than in the Turkish corpus. In another similar study on the use of metadiscourse markers in master's dissertations (introductions and conclusions) by Turkish students written in Turkish and English, Akbas (2012b) found a statistically significant difference in introductions, but no statistically significant difference in conclusions. In another cross-cultural study on the use of metadiscourse markers in master's dissertation abstracts, Akbas (2012a) found that native speakers of English use metadiscourse markers in their abstracts more than do Turkish writers.…”

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An Intercultural Investigation of Meta-Discourse Features in Research Articles by American and Turkish Academic Writers

Kafes¹

2017

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This corpus-based study compares the use of hedges and boosters in English academic research articles by Turkish and American academic writers. The data come from 40 research articles collected from well-known international journals of Applied Linguistics. Quantitative and textual analyses reveal that the American academic writers preferred to be visible in their texts by employing a lot more hedges and boosters, while Turkish academic writers opted to be invisible, preferring their studies to speak for themselves. Our results indicate, among other things, the influence of rhetorical practices, and epistemological beliefs, and the cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds of academic writers on their use of hedges and boosters. The findings of the study are discussed in relation to these aspects.

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“…There have been numerous studies on scientific discourse in Turkey (e.g. Oktar, 1991;Huber & Uzun, 2000;Uzun & Huber, 2002;Yarar, 2001;Emeksiz, 2009Emeksiz, , 2015Doyuran, 2009;Kavanoz & Şimşek, 2013;Akbaş, 2012bAkbaş, , 2014Bayyurt & Akbaş, 2014;Yağız & Demir, 2014, 2015; however, compared to the vast number of studies in other countries, there are few studies on research article abstracts (Ekoç, 2008;Çakır, 2011;Akbaş, 2012a;Çandarlı, 2012;Çakır & Kansu-Yetkiner, 2012;Fidan & Çakır, 2012;Kafes, 2009Kafes, , 2012Uysal & Akpınar, 2008;Önder Özdemir & Longo, 2014;Uysal, 2014;Çakır & Fidan, 2015;Uysal, 2012) written by Turkish academic writers. Kafes (2009) examined modal verbs in research articles as well as in abstracts written by Turkish, Spanish and American academic writers to determine how academic writers construct authorial stance in their research articles published in international journals.…”

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Native and Non-Native Writers’ Use of Stance Adverbs in English Research Article Abstracts

Çakır¹

2016

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Stance in scientific writing has been a major focus of attention. However, studies on stance in the research article abstracts have been relatively scarce in Turkey compared to those in other academic prose. Abstracts contain various sections in which information on the purpose, method, results, and conclusions of the study is presented to promote the study and to attract readers' attention. In this respect, the abstract foregrounds the main findings and serves a promotional purpose (Hyland & Tse, 2005). By comparing abstracts written by Turkish and native writers of English, this paper tries to explore how academic writers from different scientific communities construct author's stance in research article abstracts. In particular, the present study attempts to analyze lexico-grammatical features in research article abstracts focusing specifically on stance adverbs. Stance adverbs (clearly, probably, apparently) present the attitude or assessment of the speaker/writer with respect to the proposition (Biber, 2006). The corpus consists of 240 abstracts from the disciplines of sociology, psychology, linguistics, physics, chemistry and biology. The results revealed significant differences in the total number of stance adverbs. Native writers of English employed more stance adverbs in their abstracts than Turkish writers. Differences were also found of stance adverbs in soft and hard sciences. Academic writers in the soft sciences used more stance adverbs in their abstracts. Considering variations in scientific discourse across cultures and disciplines, the results of the study may have some pedagogical implications for academic writing courses.

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Interactional Metadiscourse in Turkish Postgraduates� Academic Texts: A Comparative Study of How They Introduce and Conclude

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

An Intercultural Investigation of Meta-Discourse Features in Research Articles by American and Turkish Academic Writers

Native and Non-Native Writers’ Use of Stance Adverbs in English Research Article Abstracts

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