Metadiscourse Markers in Scientific Journal Articles

Nugrahani, Veronica Esti; Bram, Barli

doi:10.31332/lkw.v6i1.1528

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“…Akoto and Afful (2020) discovered the following hierarchy for interactive markers: evidential, endophoric, transitional and frame markers. Nugrahani and Bram (2020) investigated eight published English language articles. The articles were analyzed manually to find which type and subtype of met adiscourse appeared more frequently.…”

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“…Initially, everyone concentrated on one, two or three segments within the articles they examined. For example, Benraiss and Koumachi (2023) and Musa et al (2019) focused on one section, Akoto and Afful (2020) and Nugrahani and Bram (2020) studied two sections and Alharbi (2021) investigated three sections. This may affect the examined data and accordingly may not yield the required resul ts.…”

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A corpus-based analysis of Arab scholars’ use of interactional metadiscourse markers

Sanosi,

Mohammed

2024

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Authors frequently employ metadiscourse markers (MDMs) in academic literature to encode their perspectives, support their claims and captivate readers. The usage of MDMs based on a variety of taxonomies and models has long been studied by researchers with the interpersonal model being one of the most widely applied. Results have shown a significant relationship between the use of MDMs and the comprehensibility of the texts. Though these findings seem insightful and valuable for fostering academic writing, Arab scholars’ use of MDMs especially the interactional type seems to be neglected. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study is to bridge this gap and reveal the use of interactional MDMS by Arab scholars in the fields of applied linguistics, translation and literature. The study adopted the corpus linguistic method and used a one-million-token specialized corpus that had been compiled for research purposes. The results have shown an imbalanced use of MDMs by Arab scholars using descriptive statistics and Key Word in Context (KWIC) qualitative analysis. The results have shown an imbalanced use of MDMs by Arab scholars. However, despite the limited and imbalanced use of MDMs, they are effectively utilized to serve various pragmatic functions. These findings can have implications for designing training courses that aim at fostering Arab scholars’ and students’ academic writing. Further research that investigates the writing production of Arab scholars in different disciplines is recommended to further support the current findings.

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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A corpus-based analysis of Arab scholars’ use of interactional metadiscourse markers

Sanosi,

Mohammed

2024

5019

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“…Thus, there is a need to create awareness of the use of metadiscourse in various settings. Some researchers have conducted studies related to metadiscourse awareness, such as Karakus (2020), Nugrahani andBram (2020), andPrommas (2020), who conducted studies on awareness of both interactive and interactional metadiscourse. The findings of those studies may be used to determine future instruction.…”

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“…For evidentials (or attributors), Nugrahani and Bram (2020) mentioned that these attributors are important linguistic elements in writing because citation of other writers' work provides credibility to the writer's own writing. Hence, The Star Online writers achieved the awareness required for citing materials from other sources because they had the highest mean score in identifying attributors For Focus Malaysia, the highest mean score was displayed by attributors and attitude markers categories (M = 3.000), while the second highest mean score was displayed by commentaries category (M = 2.833).…”

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Writers’ Awareness of Metadiscourse Features in Malaysian Business News

Hooi

Tan

Lee

et al. 2022

ILS

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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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“…Its appeal among researchers and academics who study speech analysis has been demonstrated in few scholarly works (Nugrahani & Bram, 2020;Liu & Buckingham, 2018;Albalat-Mascarell & Carrió-Pastor, 2019;Mirzaeian, 2020;Farahani & Kazemian, 2021) Several metadiscourse analysts were interested in published scientific articles or those who were interested in investigating metadiscourse in academic publications (Jalilifar et al, 2018;Carrio-Pastor, 2019;Almudhaffari et al, 2019). Some scholars (Alkhodari & Habil, 2021;Kuswoyo & Siregar, 2019;Zhang et al, 2017) have focused on the analysis of metadiscourse in spoken discourse, as well as on less significant issues like the use of metadiscourse in online advertisements (Al-Subhi, 2022), interactional metadiscourse based on gender (Suhono & Haikal, 2018), and English instruction manuals (Herriman, 2022).…”

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Interactive Metadiscourse Markers in Indonesian Efl Students’ Academic Writing

Pasaribu,

Sinambela

et al. 2022

ERJEE

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The research on metadiscourse markers investigation in academic texts has grown very rapidly in the last decade. However, research on interactive metadiscourse markers on EFL students' academic writing is still relatively underexplored. Therefore, this study aims to reveal how the competence of EFL students in the use of interactive metadiscourse in academic writing by comparing two groups of students with different grades, third-semester students and fifth-semester students. The research design is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. A total of 40 students were participating in this research and divided into two groups. Each group consists of 20 students. They were assigned to write a minimum-250-word essay about the importance of English mastery in the disrupted era of 4.0. Around 818 interactive markers were identified in the student’s essay texts. The results reveal that the use of interactive discourse markers in the students' writing was considered still low in quantity. The transition markers were the most dominant found in the text, followed by frame markers, code gloss, endophoric markers, and evidential respectively. Moreover, the students in the fifth semester perform slightly better than their third-semester counterparts at using the interactive metadiscourse markers. However, most of the students in both groups still encountered difficulties to employ the interactive markers in their writing. The lack of practice and the student's native language practice might have contributed to the low quality of the student's writing.

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Metadiscourse Markers in Scientific Journal Articles

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

A corpus-based analysis of Arab scholars’ use of interactional metadiscourse markers

A corpus-based analysis of Arab scholars’ use of interactional metadiscourse markers

Writers’ Awareness of Metadiscourse Features in Malaysian Business News

Interactive Metadiscourse Markers in Indonesian Efl Students’ Academic Writing

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