Contrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles

dc.citation.journalTitleRice Working Papers in Linguisticsen_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber1en_US
dc.contributor.authorRahimpour, Sepidehen_US
dc.contributor.authorFaghih, Esmailen_US
dc.contributor.orgLinguistics Departmenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-11T22:40:19Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-02-11T22:40:19Zen_US
dc.date.issued2009-02-11en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study examines a corpus of ninety discussion sections of applied linguistics research articles, with the goal of analyzing different aspects of academic written discourse. Three types of texts were considered: English texts written by native speakers of English, English texts written by Iranians (as non-natives of English), and Persian texts written by Iranians. In order to understand the cultural differences between Persian and English-speaking researchers, the following metadiscourse sub-types adapted from Hyland's (2004) model were examined: transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials, code glosses, hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, and self-mentions. The first five comprise interactive metadiscourse, and the rest comprise interactional metadiscourse. After the detailed analysis of the metadiscourse types in question, chi-square tests were carried out to clarify the probable differences. The analysis revealed how academic writings of these groups differed in their rhetorical strategies using metadiscourse type because of their respective mother tongues. However, the different groups were found to use all sub-types of metadiscourse. Yet, some subcategories were used differently by the writers of these two languages. In addition, interactive metadiscoursal factors (those resources which help to guide the reader through the text such as transitions, frame markers, etc.) were used significantly more than interactional metadiscoursal factors (those resources involve the reader in the argument such as hedges, boosters, etc.) by both groups.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRahimpour, Sepideh and Faghih, Esmail. "Contrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles." <i>Rice Working Papers in Linguistics,</i> 1, (2009) Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21850">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21850</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/21850en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/en_US
dc.subject.keywordlinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.keywordlanguageen_US
dc.subject.keyworddiscourseen_US
dc.subject.keywordcontrastive rhetoricen_US
dc.subject.keywordinteractive metadiscourseen_US
dc.subject.keywordinteractional metadiscourseen_US
dc.subject.keywordapplied linguistics research articlesen_US
dc.titleContrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articlesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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