“…Most of meta-discourse research has been devoted to the academic field (Ädel 2006;Gillaerts & Ven de Velde, 2010;Hyland, 1998Hyland, , 2002aHyland, , 2002bHyland & Milton 1997;Hyland & Tse 2004;Mauranen, 1993). Other studies of meta-discourse addressed media discourse and many registers such as editorials, opinion columns, and advertisements have been investigated (Al-Subhi, 2021, 2022Dafouz-Milne, 2008;Fu & Hyland, 2014;Le, 2004). More recent studies have looked at interactional meta-discourse and its specific features such as Khanbutayeva (2019), andLavid andMoratón (2018).…”