Metadiscourse Use in Thesis Abstracts: A Cross-cultural Study

Özdemir, Neslihan Önder; Longo, Bernadette

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.05.011

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“…Rezaei et al (2015) investigated MD in a corpus of 30 MA theses and revealed that boosters had the highest percentage with 46.68 and with 3 % of MD markers, hedges were among the least frequent items. In another study conducted by Özdemir and Longo (2014), boosters were observed 2.8 times per 10.000 words in the master's theses of Turkish students while it was employed 73.2 times in the master's theses of American students. There was a striking difference in the use of boosters in their study.…”

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“…Many scholar have argued that the use of MD varies across cultures. Özdemir and Longo (2014) compared the use of metadiscourse between Turkish and USA postgraduate students' in abstracts in MA thesis written in English by using the taxonomy of Hyland. The analysis confirmed that there were some cultural differences in the amounts and types of metadiscourse.…”

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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). Contrary to our study, Blagojevic (2004) investigated the use of MD markers in research articles written by English and Norwegian academic writers in 3 disciplines and found that hedges and attitude markers were applied at higher frequencies in research articles written by English and Norwegian academic authors.…”

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Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

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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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“…To be more specific, there are few studies investigating stance employed in dissertations written by EFL students, especially, Thai doctoral students. To the best of my knowledge, only five studies (Ahmad & Mehrjooseresht, 2012;Gil-Salom & Soler-Monreal's, 2014;Hyland, 2005;Ozdemir & Longo, 2014;Rahimivand & Kuhi, 2014) were conducted to investigate authorial stance of EFL graduate dissertations. To this end, I intend to conduct a corpus-based study to explore the use of authorial stance in the Introduction and Discussion sections of the dissertations since the PhD dissertations are important pieces of papers-gateway to academic achievement, the researchers must not only process evaluative thinking but creditably express their own evaluations to show their standpoint.…”

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Authorial Stance in Thai Students’ Doctoral Dissertation

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2016

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This study investigates how linguistic devices are used to convey authorial stance in 36 Introduction sections and 36 Discussion sections of doctoral dissertations written in English by Thai students graduated in language education from different universities in the United States during the period 2008 to 2013. It also compares the use of authorial stance in the two sections. A concordance program called 'AntConc' was used to detect authorial stance based on Hyland (2005)'s framework. The results of an independent sample t-test revealed that there were some sectional differences in the amounts, types, and functions of authorial stance. Pedagogical implications for EAP/ESP instruction and recommendations for further research are provided in light of empirical data.

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“…With the interactional metadiscourse markers in English, It doubts whether there may be losses in both semantically and functionally in the process of translating Turkish to English. Ozdemir and Longo (2014) investigate cultural variations in the use of metadiscourse between Turkish and USA postgraduate students' abstracts in MA thesis written in English. The study also compares the incidence of both interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers between 26 theses of USA students and 26 of Turikish students.…”

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Exploring the Rhetorical Use of Interactional Metadiscourse: A Comparison of Letters to Shareholders of American and Chinese Financial Companies

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2017

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By taking Hyland and Tse's (2004) interactional metadiscourse model, this study attempts to compare the incidence of the interactional metadiscourse markers in letters to shareholders of American and Chinese companies in the financial industry and their rhetorical functions. This study makes American corpus of 41 letters and Chinese corpus of 37 letters both of which are written in English. WordSmith is adopted to find out the differences in incidence of these markers. Chi-square test further confirms these differences are significant. It is consequently found that five types of interactional metadiscourse markers are all deployed in both American and Chinese corpus but the incidence of each marker is much more in American corpus than that in Chinese corpus. Besides, this study identifies that self-mentions and engagement markers are the most frequently employed in both corpora. However, it is noticeable that self-mentions and engagement markers collaborate with another three types of markers more tactically and flexibly in American corpus than in Chinese. In particular, self-mentions markers are found to use with not only boosters, but hedges and engagement markers in American corpus, while self-mentions markers in Chinese corpus only collaborate with hedges. In addition, the engagement markers of model verbs and personal pronouns are more active in American corpus than these in Chinese. This study finds out American companies integrate these markers into building a positive personal or corporate image and closing writer-reader relationship, thereby accomplishing the promotional and persuasive purposes. It may suggest that Chinese companies employ the integration of interactional metadiscourse markers as strategically as American.

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Metadiscourse Use in Thesis Abstracts: A Cross-cultural Study

Cited by 47 publications

References 10 publications

Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

Stance-Taking through Metadiscourse in Doctoral Dissertations

Authorial Stance in Thai Students’ Doctoral Dissertation

Exploring the Rhetorical Use of Interactional Metadiscourse: A Comparison of Letters to Shareholders of American and Chinese Financial Companies

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