2015
DOI: 10.5430/wjel.v5n2p1
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Metadiscourse in Arabic and English Research Article Abstracts

Abstract: The rhetorical device of metadiscourse has been perceived to be crucial in understanding the dynamic nature of the academic text. Studies on this rhetorical strategy in Arabic academic texts or in those written by Arabic-speaking writers are limited. This study fills this gap by examining 44 paired abstracts (Arabic and English) published in English research articles by Arab scholars. Using Hyland's (2005) model, the findings indicate the overuse of interactive markers compared to the interactional ones in bot… Show more

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“…The absence of engagement markers in the abstract sections is in line with existing research( see e.g. Sultan, 2011& Alotaibi, 2015 which reveal that engagement markers are to be the least employed IMDMs or even absent in Arabic abstracts written by native Arabic writers "as they may indicate a conversational and an informal tone" (Alotaibi, 2015, p.8).…”
Section: Self-mentionsupporting
confidence: 87%
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“…The absence of engagement markers in the abstract sections is in line with existing research( see e.g. Sultan, 2011& Alotaibi, 2015 which reveal that engagement markers are to be the least employed IMDMs or even absent in Arabic abstracts written by native Arabic writers "as they may indicate a conversational and an informal tone" (Alotaibi, 2015, p.8).…”
Section: Self-mentionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…This finding is in agreement with the findings of other studies investigating self-mention across different genres or disciplines (e.g. Al-harbi & Swales, 2011;Sultan, 2011;Alotaibi, 2015) which reveal a limited number of selfmention in Arabic texts written by Arabic native writers. These findings altogether show the tendency among native Arabic-speaking writers to avoid self-mentions whether they are writing in their first language or in English.…”
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confidence: 93%
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“…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.…”
Section: Shaqra Universitymentioning
confidence: 99%