Cross-Cultural Analysis of Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Local Newspaper Articles

Farnia, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nooredin

doi:10.5817/di2018-2-27

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“…Apart from that, Bedu's ( 2019) study revealed that the use of attitude markers expressed the writers' affective attitudes in conveying surprise, obligation, agreement, and importance in the text. This ascertains that attitude markers are persuasive devices whose function is to express writers' affective values toward propositional content as they are applied differently in text (Farnia & Mohammadi, 2018). The use of commentaries in creating rapport with the readers is supported in the study of Hashemi and Golparvar (2012), where they concurred that commentaries were used to establish the interaction between the writer and the readers.…”

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Texts with Metadiscourse Features are More Engaging: A Fact or A Myth?

Hooi

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Lee

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Metadiscourse is a pragmatic linguistic device that writers use to engage with their readers. For decades, research on metadiscourse has mostly centred on academic texts. There were also attempts to examine its use in editorials. However, in this study, attempts are made to investigate the readers' responses on the use and non-use of metadiscourse in online business news. To gain insights on this objective, thirty participants from a local public university in Malaysia participated in the study. The findings showed that most of the participants preferred to read news with textual metadiscourse because it was clearer, while 16.67% of the participants preferred to read news without textual metadiscourse. The findings also revealed that 93.33% of the participants preferred to read news with interpersonal metadiscourse because it was more engaging, while only 6.67% of the participants preferred to read news without interpersonal metadiscourse. The findings revealed the importance of metadiscourse in business news writings, and as such, texts constructed with and without the presence of metadiscourse could be useful teaching resources for writing instructors in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) writing classrooms.

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Texts with Metadiscourse Features are More Engaging: A Fact or A Myth?

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Tan

Lee

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“…To date, studies on metadiscourse that focused on news were not on business news, but they were on newspaper discourse. Farnia and Mohammadi (2018) in their study on opinion articles demonstrated that interpersonal metadiscourse was present in both British and Iranian newspapers, but they only focused on the role of interpersonal metadiscourse in the newspapers. This could be a drawback in Farnia and Mohammadi's (2018) study because textual metadiscourse is important for examination as it makes the text more lucid and cogent.…”

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“…Farnia and Mohammadi (2018) in their study on opinion articles demonstrated that interpersonal metadiscourse was present in both British and Iranian newspapers, but they only focused on the role of interpersonal metadiscourse in the newspapers. This could be a drawback in Farnia and Mohammadi's (2018) study because textual metadiscourse is important for examination as it makes the text more lucid and cogent. Mardani's (2017) study on newspaper articles suggested that metadiscourse had a very significant role in persuasive texts in both writing and translating in newspaper articles.…”

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Writers’ Awareness of Metadiscourse Features in Malaysian Business News

Hooi

Tan

Lee

et al. 2022

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Metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource in business news because it guides readers throughout the text. Business news is vital to keep people abreast of how the economy affects job opportunities, how high or low interest rates may go, and whether layoffs are imminent in local industries. However, it is the news that people read the least because it is not engaging to them. The study aims to investigate The Star Online and Focus Malaysia business news writers’ awareness on the use of metadiscourse features. Metadiscourse Awareness Test was given to 10 business news writers from The Star Online and Focus Malaysia respectively. The findings showed that sequencers had the lowest mean score (M=2.334) for textual metadiscourse, while certainty markers had the lowest mean score (M=2.667) for interpersonal metadiscourse. Although The Star Online and Focus Malaysia writers exhibited the lowest mean score in identifying sequencers and certainty markers, they still demonstrated a high awareness in identifying all the categories of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse. The findings revealed the importance of metadiscourse features for the business news writers to fully utilise them in the news industry.

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“…In a similar view, research in academic writing has long established that functional metadiscourse plays an essential role in academic writing, owning to different communicative functions (Farnia & Mohammadi, 2019;Ho & Li, 2018;Hong & Cao, 2014;Hyland, 2005aHyland, , 2010Hyland & Tse, 2004;Kim & Lim, 2013;Lee & Deakin, 2016;Li & Wharton, 2012;Mur-Duenas, 2011;Musa et al, 2019). Thus, as a way to understand the functional metadiscourse in negotiating meanings in a text and establishing a connection with readers of a text, our previous study (Lo et al, 2020) examined the use of metadiscourse in academic writing across four areas of study in education.…”

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Mapping the Use of Boosters in Academic Writing by Malaysian First-Year Doctoral Students

Othman

Lim

2021

JSSH

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This article details an attempt to understand better how first-year doctoral students construct persuasive arguments in academic writing by exploring the patterns of boosters in drafts of doctoral research proposals. Eight Malaysian first-year ESL doctoral students produced 43 drafts of doctoral research proposals across four areas of study in education during their first year of doctoral studies. These drafts were analysed by coding the various linguistic items used to persuade readers of a text, and the analysis was based on Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. Results show that the (i) overall frequency of booster markers used is relatively low (n=158), reinforcing the argument that first-year doctoral students lack understanding about the interaction between booster markers and the context in a more complicated discussion in academic writing such as the doctoral research proposal. Then, the (ii) further analysis of booster marker sub-categories indicates that Malaysian first-year doctoral students struggle to make appropriate booster markers with different meanings and strengths in academic writing when used in context. Therefore, our study suggests that direct and explicit teaching of using various booster markers categories should be implemented in postgraduate writing courses to heightened the students’ perceptiveness regarding semantic features associated with creating convincing arguments in academic writing.

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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Local Newspaper Articles

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Texts with Metadiscourse Features are More Engaging: A Fact or A Myth?

Texts with Metadiscourse Features are More Engaging: A Fact or A Myth?

Writers’ Awareness of Metadiscourse Features in Malaysian Business News

Mapping the Use of Boosters in Academic Writing by Malaysian First-Year Doctoral Students

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