Questions as reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish

Curry, Niall

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“…The last category of engagement meta-discourse also appeals directly to the reader and offer some inside information that assist the arguments. Personal asides refer to language within the text that is used to deliver extra and tangential information to the reader (Curry, 2021). They allow writers to address readers directly by briefly interrupting the argument to offer a comment on what has been said (Hyland, 2005b).…”

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Interactional meta-discourse and phraseology in newspaper editorials during the Russia-Ukraine War

Al-Subhi

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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The massive influence of media in our daily life has led to an increased interest of analyzing media discourse among linguists. A newspaper editorial is a distinctive register of print media that expresses the newspaper’s opinion about current issues in the world. The present study showed the results of a linguistic comparative analysis of the language of newspaper editorials that are published recently during the Russia-Ukraine War. The investigation is based on samples taken from leading newspapers in the USA and the UAE. The corpus consists of 24 editorials totaling about 16,673 words written in English. The study aimed to investigate two fundamental principles of language use, namely: meta-discourse and phraseology in the genre of newspaper editorials adapting a quantitative content analysis approach. Hyland’s (2005b) interactional model of meta-discourse has been applied in the analysis. Data showed a high level of similarity between the USA and the UAE editorials in terms of frequency of several linguistic markers. Data also showed that stance markers were significantly higher than engagement markers in both corpora. Moreover, results reported a variety of use of collocations, modality, and idiomatic expressions. The study concluded that newspaper editorials are argumentative texts that are distinguished by the use of hedges, attitude markers, and other persuasive devices. The study combines key linguistic concepts and contributes to the field of discourse analysis as it provides useful insights about media discourse and newspaper discourse particularly editorials.

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Interactional meta-discourse and phraseology in newspaper editorials during the Russia-Ukraine War

Al-Subhi

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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“…Their study produced generally positive results for using corpora to develop academic writing. Academic corpora could be examined by researchers at any career stage to investigate discreet and disciplinary facets of writing, such as how the authors express aspects of stance and engagement like rhetorical questions in their writing (e.g., Curry, 2021a). These applications could employ the use of a monolingual specialised corpus of expert writing or a comparable corpus of expert and novice writing, as in the case of Lee and Swales (2006), while multilingual corpora could be used to identify differences across languages (Almazova & Kogan, 2014;Curry & Chambers, 2017;Schmied, 2011).…”

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How Should Digital Tools for Writing be Evaluated? Reflections from Digital Pedagogies and Applied Linguistics

Curry

2023

JoAW

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The use of digital tools in academic literacies remains an emerging field, having advanced greatly in recent years. This dialogue responds to Schcolnik (2018), by arguing the benefits of considering the use of such tools in light of advances in digital pedagogies and applied linguistics. Going beyond understanding how academic writing developers engage with digital tools, an important next step is to consider whether their use of such tools is effective.

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“…For example, there is potential for a lack of consideration for the role of interpretation when conducting corpus analyses (Egbert et al, 2020) and a growing preoccupation with quantity over quality in corpus description (Egbert, 2019). Moreover, with a focus on big data, there is of relegating small, specialised corpora to a lesser status, despite small corpora remaining of critical importance when applying corpus linguistics to fields such as languages for specific purposes, contrastive linguistics, and pragmatics (Cotos, 2017;Curry, 2021;Rühlemann, 2021). Offering a counter-perspective to such worrying practices, Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (McEnery & Brezina, 2022) reminds us of the need to focus not just on the quantity of corpus data, but also on their quality.…”

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Review of McEnery & Brezina (2022): Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

Curry

2023

IJCL

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Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (McEnery & Brezina, 2022) makes a valuable contribution to the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics, by offering an in-depth, philosophical perspective on corpus linguistics as a field and methodology. As indicated in the Preface (McEnery & Brezina, 2022, p. xi), the book was written with a view to building on the authors ' previous work, namely, McEnery &Hardie (2011) andBrezina (2018), by focusing on the foundational concepts that underpin corpus linguistics as a methodology. To do so, the book draws on the work of Karl Popper (e.g., Popper, 1976Popper, , 2002 and interrogates the position of corpus linguistics as a (social) science, offering a line of reasoning that can be adopted by readers who wish to build and analyse corpora, based on notions of logic and common sense approaches. McEnery & Brezina (2022) develop their ways of thinking and their approach to corpus linguistic analysis by reflecting on the epistemological perspectives embodied by researchers who make use of this now well-espoused, transdisciplinary methodology. As such, the book is designed as a complimentary resource, not replacing or reiterating the views shared in their earlier works, but, instead, offering a further perspective to equip readers with conceptual approaches to undertaking corpus building and corpus linguistic analyses e.g., falsification, common sense approaches, repeatability, replication, etc.The iterative development of the 48 fundamental principles of corpus linguistics throughout the book's eight chapters is one of its stronger contributions. McEnery & Brezina's (2022) approach to developing these principles takes readers on a journey from broad statements on corpus linguistics to more nuanced perspectives, meaning that even those less familiar with corpus linguistic analytical approaches can be scaffolded into more complex thinking on the topic. Moreover, as 15 of these principles are redeveloped within the text, the iterative approach to developing the principles is itself a meta-demonstration of the processes of falsification, reflection, and revision that the authors suggest as key to effective corpus building and analysis. To demonstrate the contributions of this book, in what follows, I offer a

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Questions as reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish

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Interactional meta-discourse and phraseology in newspaper editorials during the Russia-Ukraine War

Interactional meta-discourse and phraseology in newspaper editorials during the Russia-Ukraine War

How Should Digital Tools for Writing be Evaluated? Reflections from Digital Pedagogies and Applied Linguistics

Review of McEnery & Brezina (2022): Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

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