“…Metadiscourse has been investigated in different genres and contexts such as doctoral dissertations (Bunton, 1999), master's dissertation (Akbas, 2014;Akbas & Hardman, 2017), introductory coursebooks (Hyland, 1999), slogans and headlines (Fuertes-Olivera, Velasco-Sacristan, Arribas-Bano, & Samaniego-Fernandez, 2001), student writing (Gardner & Han, 2018) and research articles (RAs) across disciplines (Blagojevic, 2004) and across languages (Akbas & Hardman, 2018;Alotaibi, 2015Alotaibi, , 2016Zarei & Mansoori, 2007). In order to see how metadiscourse differs across academic languages, Zarei and Mansoori (2007) compared Persian RAs to English texts, focusing on two disciplines, namely computer engineering and applied linguistics.…”