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- Title
Metadiscourse Features in English News Writing among English Native and Iranian Writers: A Comparative Corpus-based Inquiry.
- Authors
Farahani, Mehrdad Vasheghani; Sabetifard, Mehrnoosh
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare and contrast the distribution and application of metadiscourse features in news writings between English native writers and Iranian non-native writers. To this end, a comparable corpus of English news written by English native authors and Iranian authors were selected randomly. For the theoretical framework, Hyland's model (2005) was exploited. As the data represent, the English authors were more relied than the Persian ones on metadiscourse features. Also, the data revealed that in both corpora, the interactional metadiscourse features were preponderant as compared to the interactive metadiscourse features. In addition, in the interactional corpus, hedges were the most frequent as compared to transitions which were the most frequent type of metadiscourse in interactive category.
- Subjects
JOURNALISM writing; CORPORA; HEDGE (Linguistics); INTERACTIVE assessment (Education); INTERACTION analysis in education
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2017, Vol 7, Issue 12, p1249
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.0712.12