Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers and Appraisal Portrayed in BBC’s Corona Virus News Report

Abstract

The current pandemic study has not been much discussed, especially one focusing on interpersonal metadiscourse markers and appraisal use. Consequently, this study is significant in reporting the descriptive analysis of the features of interpersonal metadiscourse markers and appraisal appearing in the BBC News reports that discussed Corona Virus. A discourse analysis approach is used to examine the interlocutors' phenomena of metadiscourse within the discourse. The study results revealed that the way the speaker delivered the argument was denoted by the presence of interpersonal metadiscourse markers to convey a message. Thus, it demonstrated the way the speakers attempted to engage the listeners in the discourse. Moreover, the findings also revealed that the appraisal framework's application contributed to the markers formerly being analyzed. Consequently, it elucidated how the speaker delivered their arguments by applying evidential, hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mention.

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“…The use of transitions is not in agreement with the findings of other related studies on metadiscourse, perhaps, they are different genre of texts. For example, results of the research on metadiscourse markers among English learners conducted by Alqahtani & Abdelhalim (2020), (Pasaribu et al, 2022), andJavid et al, (2013); transition markers places the highest frequency in news by Aini & Ekawati (2022) and Firdaus & Shartika (2021). It seems quite natural that transitions were frequently used in academic writing and news articles since they are the conventional way of structuring cohesion in the text (Hyland, 2005).…”

“…Some of them studied metadicourse in various texts, from news articles, textbooks, academic writing and articles, speeches, and some other texts. Among of them who studied metadiscourse for news articles are Wang & Zhang (2016), Nugroho (2020), Firdaus & Shartika (2021), Aini & Ekawati (2022). Meanwhile, scholar who conducted research on metadiscourse in particular for textbook is Maier (2017).…”