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Direct linkHelen Hint; Helena Lemendik; Christer Johansson; Djuddah A. J. Leijen – Written Communication, 2025
This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non-Indo-European language. Our goal is to show how metadiscourse, as a feature of a writing tradition, can reveal aspects of writing in languages other than…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Interpersonal Communication, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
Montazeri, Ebtesam Abbasi; Jalilifar, Alireza; Hita, Jorge Arus – Language Awareness, 2023
Research on academic stance and evaluation has been prolific over the past few decades. Few studies, however, have focused on exploring the evaluative potential of that-constructions in shaping the structure of academic arguments. To address this lacuna, the current study aimed at exploring the potential impact of the distinct communicative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Persuasive Discourse
Download full textAbdesslem, Habib – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Metadiscourse studies, inspired by Halliday's interpersonal metafunction of language, have dominated academic discourse analysis. They tended to exclude the ideational metafunction in discourse and to reduce the reader/analyst to a concordance programme that scans texts for lists of pre-established, but not always clearly defined, linguistic…
Descriptors: Authors, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Models
Kan, Mustafa Onur – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
This study aims to identify the interactive metadiscourse markers in the main sections of the articles (introduction, method, findings, results, discussion and conclusion) in the fields of science and social sciences. Designed as a descriptive research, this study employs the survey model. The articles analyzed in this study are a total of 16…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Text Structure, Research Reports, Sciences
Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Kaya, Fatma; Yagiz, Oktay – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims to make a comparison between research article abstracts written by two groups in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by Turkish scholars and non-Turkish scholars working in Anglophone countries to find the rhetorical structure they employ in their abstracts. To achieve this purpose, 390 research article abstracts, 195…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
Salam, Abdul; Mahfud, Mahmudah; Nurhusna, Nurhusna – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
Systemic Functional linguistics is related to a sign system that can be used to trace the scientific characteristic of academic texts. This study aimed at describing academic texts covering four technical terms: (1) simple, (2) dense, 3) objective, and (4) directness. Data analysis was done through three stages: (a) data reduction, (b) data…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
Aparici, Melina; Cuberos, Rocío; Salas, Naymé; Rosado, Elisa – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Mastering analytical writing involves the proficient use of varied later-acquired grammatical, lexical and discourse forms and functions. Developmental studies have identified specific linguistic features as diagnostic of increasing proficiency. This study examines how these features change throughout educational levels and before and after the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Grammar
La-o-vorakiat, Aimon; Singhasiri, Wareesiri – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Writing research articles is an important and demanding task for members of academia, and the introduction is generally considered the most difficult portion to write (Swales, 1990). Move analysis has proven useful in studying the communicative functions of introductions and other sections of research articles, and is thus beneficial in training…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Research Reports, Writing (Composition), Faculty Publishing
