Functional Analyses of Metadiscourse Markers in L2 Students’ Academic Writing

Jomaa, Nayef Jomaa; Alia, Mohammad M.

doi:10.24093/awej/vol10no1.30

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“…By analyzing the corpora quantitatively, she has concluded that the American writers used more metadiscourse features (both interactive and interactional) in their writings. Jomaa and Alia (2019) have inspected functional analyses of metadiscourse devices in L2 students' academic writing. They analyzed the repetition and wordings of modality within the citations of the literature review chapters of 20 Ph.D. theses by using the Systemic Functional Linguistics.…”

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A Comparative Corpus-Based Analysis of Using Hedging, Boostering, and Self-Mentioning Metadiscourse Markers in Persian and English Psychology Books

Karami

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2020

IJREE

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Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic ties used to communicate attitudes and denote the grammatical attributes of a text. The present study was conducted to inspect using hedging, boostering, and self-mentioning metadiscourse markers in the well-known Persian and English psychology books. Based on the chosen corpora of the study, this inquiry purposed to realize what the general preferences are in the use of hedging, boostering, and self-mentioning metadiscourse markers in Persian and English psychology books. The corpora of four psychology books, two by Persianspeaking psychologists and two by English-speaking psychologists, were chosen and analyzed based on Hyland's ( 2005) model of metadiscourse. The data obtained and collected from the chosen corpora were analyzed by Ant Conc 3.5.7 and SPSS statistical software. By analyzing the corpora of the study quantitatively, it is resulted that Persian-speaking psychologists used more metadiscourse markers than that of Englishspeaking psychologists in their books. Secondly, it is detected that Persian-speaking psychologists used fewer hedging metadiscourse markers in their books than that of their English-speaking counterparts. Thirdly, it is found that Persian-speaking psychologists used more boostering metadiscourse markers in their books than that of their Englishspeaking counterparts. Next, it is realized that Persian-speaking psychologists used more singular first-person self-mentioning metadiscourse markers in their books; however, their English-speaking counterparts used more plural third-person self-mentioning metadiscourse markers in their books. In addition, textual analysis has shown the difference of Persian and English sub-corpora in using hedging, boostering, and self-mentioning metadiscourse markers.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Corpus-Based Analysis of Using Hedging, Boostering, and Self-Mentioning Metadiscourse Markers in Persian and English Psychology Books

Karami

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2020

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“…The contrastive analysis, prominent in both Clusters #2 and #4, was firstly undertaken by vergaro (2002). This was followed by other studies which identified the differences in metadiscourse usage between English and languages such as Brazilian Portuguese (Hirano, 2009), Spanish (Mur-Dueñas, 2011), Italian (vergaro, 2005, Chinese (Crosthwaite & Jiang, 2017;Mu et al 2015) and Malaysian (Jomaa & Alia, 2019).…”

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How does a research topic evolve into a research field? — a bibliometric analysis of metadiscourse research

Dong

2023

Ibérica

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This study adopted a bibliometric approach to trace the diachronic changes in the metadiscourse research, based on the research articles and their unique references retrieved from the web of science (WOS) core collections from 1980-2020. CiteSpace software was employed to conduct a co-citation analysis to investigate the common themes, the developmental stages, as well as the landmark publications of this domain in the last four decades. Twelve major themes (represented by clusters) were identified; studies in these clusters progressed through three developmental stages, namely: the conceptualizing stage, the maturing stage, and the flourishing stage. Three key transformative studies were identified which contribute to ushering in the developmental stage. The use of structural variation analysis in reaching these findings helped to solve the heavy reliance on co-citation analysis. Our analysis identified unique features in the trajectory of metadiscourse research which can contribute to the deconstruction of the development of scientific fields.

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“…Consequently, Transitivity analysis proved to be a practical tool for analyzing various genres (Alraimi & Abdalla, 2019;Jomaa & Alia, 2019;Xiang, 2022). Transitivity can be a powerful tool for revealing the ideological underpinnings of texts and for understanding how power is constructed and maintained in society (Matu, 2008).…”

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Identity of Successful Women: An Analysis of Transitivity System and Stance Markers in Selected TED Talks

Khalil

2023

WJEL

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In recent years, as women continue to break through barriers and shatter glass ceilings, it becomes necessary to understand how they construct their identities as successful individuals. To fulfill this purpose, this research paper analyzed selected TED Talks delivered by five successful women entrepreneurs. The present study aims to unravel how women perceive success according to their personal experiences. The analysis is conducted in two phases. In the first, Halliday’s transitivity system was used. In the second phase, Hyland’s (2005) analysis of stance was applied to scrutinize the linguistic choices made by the speakers to construct and convey their identities as successful individuals. Results of data analysis revealed that with the prevailing use of material transitivity processes, successful women were able to present their experiences clearly. The dominance of self-mentions and scarcity of hedges revealed their confidence and certainty in their speech and their success experience as well.

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Functional Analyses of Metadiscourse Markers in L2 Students’ Academic Writing

Cited by 4 publications

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A Comparative Corpus-Based Analysis of Using Hedging, Boostering, and Self-Mentioning Metadiscourse Markers in Persian and English Psychology Books

A Comparative Corpus-Based Analysis of Using Hedging, Boostering, and Self-Mentioning Metadiscourse Markers in Persian and English Psychology Books

How does a research topic evolve into a research field? — a bibliometric analysis of metadiscourse research

Identity of Successful Women: An Analysis of Transitivity System and Stance Markers in Selected TED Talks

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