چکیده:
Metadiscourse refers to the evolving text, to the writer, and to the imagined readers
of that text. It is based on a view of writing as a social engagement. This study
draws on an interpersonal model of metadiscourse to examine disciplinary
influences on the use of interactive metadiscourse in research article introductions.
The study examined the distributions of interactive metadiscourse markers in a
corpus of 120 RAs representing four academic disciplines. Physics and medicine
were selected from hard discipline, applied linguistics and Economics were selected
from soft science to shed some light on the ways academic writers deploy these
resources to persuade readers in their own discourse community. No statistically
significant difference was found in the use of interactive metadiscourse markers
across disciplines. The findings suggest how academic writers use language to offer
an accurate representation of their work in different fields, and how metadiscourse
can be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social
distinctiveness of disciplinary communities. The findings are attributable to the
knowledge-knower structures characteristic of the disciplines and the epistemologies
underlying the research paradigms. These findings might have implications for the
teaching of academic writing and for novice writers who would like to publish their
research in academic journals.
خلاصه ماشینی:
<H1>Research Article Introductions and Disciplinary Influences based on Interactive Metadiscourse Markers</H1> Reza Abdi* Associate Professor in ELT ELT Department, Faculty of Humanities University of Mohaghegh Ardabili <H1>Parisa Ahmadi</H1> ELT Instructor Payam Noor University, Ardabil Branch Abstract Metadiscourse refers to the evolving text, to the writer, and to the imagined readers of that text.
The study examined the distributions of interactive metadiscourse markers in a corpus of 120 RAs representing four academic disciplines.
Physics and medicine were selected from hard discipline, applied linguistics and Economics were selected from soft science to shed some light on the ways academic writers deploy these resources to persuade readers in their own discourse community.
The findings suggest how academic writers use language to offer an accurate representation of their work in different fields, and how metadiscourse can be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social distinctiveness of disciplinary communities.
Key words: interactive metadiscourse markers, disciplinary influences, research article, introduction section * Associate Professor in ELT ,ELT Department, Faculty of Humanities University of Mohaghegh Ardabili -Received on03/12/2015 Accepted on: 19/03/2016 Email: reabdi@uma.
It is based on a view of writing as a social engagement that reveals the ways the writers project themselves into their discourse to engage readers, signal their guiding and organizing attempts, commitments, and attitudes (Hyland &amp; Tse, 2004).
The findings revealed how academic writers used language to offer an accurate representation of themselves and their work in different fields, and thus how metadiscourse could be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social distinctiveness of disciplinary communities.