“…It is the ways speakers interact with their audience through their use of the language. Studies on metadiscourse has mostly centered on written discourses, particularly academic texts, covering extensively on research articles (RAs) (Hu and Cao, 2015;Salas, 2015) and students' written work either at school (Kim, 2017) or at tertiary levels (Kawase, 2015;Ali, 2016), and with some emphasis on other texts such as textbooks (Ebrahimi, 2018), as well as in relation to other language skills such as reading and listening (Dorodkhan and Kiasi, 2016). Metadiscourse in nonacademic texts have also been examined as in work on newspaper (Ahmed and Masroor, 2018), online consumer reviews (Vasquez, 2015), political talks (Albalat-Mascarell and Carrio-Pastor, 2019) and digital news (Pastor, 2016).…”