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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…