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Helen 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
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McHenry, Elizabeth; Heath, Shirley Brice – Written Communication, 1994
Discusses orality as an historical feature of African American language habits. Provides historical evidence of the literate values and habits of African Americans since the early 1800s. Resists the tendency to deny variation in the habits and values of ethnic groups. (HB)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Blacks, English Instruction