Cross-linguistic patterns of metadiscourse: Disciplinary similarities and section-based differences
Djuddah A. J. Leijen,
Helen Hint,
Helena Lemendik
et al.
Abstract:This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages and texts, making distinctions between these languages and specific academic journals, and 2) to discern whether similar and/or different patterns can be identified across the languages and whether such patterns also manifest across various academic journals. We find that Estonian writers use … Show more
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