Search results for "metadiscourse"

"So you're saying": the interrogation of Jordan Peterson

2021

<p class="p1">In this article, I analyse the infamous Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson on the 16th of January 2018 and subsequent viewer comments on Channel 4's YouTube channel. My first hypothesis is that Newman's frequent attribution of statements to Peterson using the now notorious "so you are saying" gambit (YSG) is what triggered outrage among Peterson's followers, which, in turn, generated media interest. My second hypothesis is that the interview is best understood as a series of Face threats by Newman on Peterson using the YSG. To ascertain if my hypotheses are true, I performed corpus linguistic analyses on the interview and comments to provide objective descriptio…

Content and form in English business abstracts and research articles: a corpus-based genre approach

2012

Se han escrito muchos trabajos sobre el resumen y el artículo de investigación, especialmente en los últimos veinte años, aunque pocos dedicados al estudio de estos géneros en el ámbito empresarial, y menos en lo que se refiere a su estructura y a la relación entre ambos. El objetivo principal de este estudio es precisamente incrementar la concienciación y conocimiento de la importancia de escribir buenos resúmenes y artículos de investigación en el ámbito de los negocios y cómo el resumen debe persuadir al lector para que lea el artículo. El artículo de investigación como género ha sido objeto de estudio durante mucho tiempo, siendo reconocido su importante papel en la diseminación del con…

Gendered Use of the Hedge in Academic Discourse

2013

This paper discusses the distribution of hedges in academic texts in relation to the gender of the writer. The assumption prior to the analysis concerned possible differences in communicative practices between male and female writers reflected in the hedging of their propositions. The textual material covers 20 research articles, 10 written by male and 10 by female authors, published in the Journal of Linguistics in the years 2001–2010. Metadiscourse as “discourse about discourse” is connected with the communicative, social and personal involvement (Hyland 2000). Hedges, as indicators of the writer’s stance, should reveal characteristics of particular writing styles based on powerful or sup…

Repair work interaction in business e-mail messages - with special reference to interpersonal metadiscourse

2002

Metadiscourse in Persuasive Writing

1993

Metadiscourse refers to writers' discourse about their discourse—their directions for how readers should read, react to, and evaluate what they have written about the subject matter. In this study the authors divided metadiscourse into textual metadiscourse (text markers and interpretive markers) and interpersonal metadiscourse (hedges, certainty markers, attributors, attitude markers, and commentary). The purpose was to investigate cultural and gender variations in the use of metadiscourse in the United States and Finland by asking whether U.S. and Finnish writers use the same amounts and types and whether gender makes any difference. The analyses revealed that students in both countries …

If you can defend your own point of view, you're good : Norms of voice construction in student writing on an international Master's programme

2019

Abstract This ethnographically oriented study followed the writing experiences of four students on an international masters programme in Finland. Gathering a range of data, the study set out to examine what counts as good writing on a programme with a very diverse student body in which English is used as a lingua franca. Both teachers and students emphasised the importance of arguing one's ‘own point of view’ in academic writing, and teachers often formed impressions of students on the basis of their texts, drawing attention particularly to their use of metadiscourse markers (e.g., self-mentions, attitude markers and hedges). The present article therefore combines a quantitative analysis of…

Interpersonality Strategies in International Student Handbooks Written by Native Speakers of English (NSE) and Non-native Speakers of English (NNSE)

2014

Summary of the doctoral dissertation Interpersonality Strategies in International Student Handbooks Written by Native Speakers of English (NSE) and Non-native Speakers of English (NNSE) Tesis doctoral presentada por: Stan McDaniel Mann Valencia, 2014 Have you ever read a brochure or handbook written in English by a non-native speaker of English (NNSE), noticed that the grammar and syntax was excellent and the terminology was near-perfect, but you still did not understand the essence of what the author was trying to communicate, or you had the feeling that the information was ambiguous? It was precisely for these two reasons that this research on interpersonality strategies was carried out. …

Subjectivity in Russian and American media: an interpersonal discursive perspective

2021

Esta tesis informa un análisis comparativo de la realización de la subjetividad en la campaña presidencial del 2018 en Rusia a través del metadiscurso interpersonal. La subjetividad siempre ha sido una característica intrínseca del periodismo y tradicionalmente se ha opuesto al canon de la objetividad, simultáneamente la norma más prominente y controvertida de la práctica periodística (Tuchman, 1980; Carey, 1989; Lichtenberg, 1991; Gans, 2003; Schiller, 2008; Maras, 2013). La mayoría de los investigadores coinciden en la idea de que los periodistas muestran una tendencia hacia una postura más interpretativa, por lo que la subjetividad es una parte esencial del discurso periodístico, tanto i…

“At the Receiving End of Severe Misunderstanding”: Dambudzo Marechera's Representations of Authorship

2011

The Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987) is the object of a cult phenomenon: his figure represents a relevant site of sense-making and his earlier unfavorable African criticism is challenged. Marechera’s fiction has a strong autobiographical dimension that results in a metadiscourse on the meanings of authorship, where the notion of misunderstanding represents a central trope. This essay aims not only at drawing an overview of Marechera’s representations of authorship, but also at suggesting that Marechera was actively involved in the construction of his authorial image, and that the notion of misunderstanding captures the changes that have taken place in the contexts of his cri…

Persuasion in journalistic sub-genres of opinion : interpersonal metadiscusive uses in English and Spanish

2011

Análisis metadiscursivo interpersonal en sub-géneros de opinión en inglés y español en artículos de economía. Journalistic genres share a common communicative objective: to inform and entertain readers through persuasion, this being a major function that pervades most journalistic texts. Therefore, their interpersonal metadiscourse should, forecastedly, contain a number of linguistic devices that comply this function, although sub-genres of opinion in English and Spanish may presumably present quantitative and qualitative differences, since metadiscourse is usually not only constrained by generic features but also by sociolinguistic habits changing from one language to another (Suau-Jiménez…