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

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dc.citation.journalTitleRice Working Papers in Linguistics
dc.citation.volumeNumber1
dc.contributor.authorRahimpour, Sepideh
dc.contributor.authorFaghih, Esmail
dc.contributor.orgLinguistics Department
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-11T22:40:19Z
dc.date.available2009-02-11T22:40:19Z
dc.date.issued2009-02-11
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.
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>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/21850
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subject.keywordlinguistics
dc.subject.keywordlanguage
dc.subject.keyworddiscourse
dc.subject.keywordcontrastive rhetoric
dc.subject.keywordinteractive metadiscourse
dc.subject.keywordinteractional metadiscourse
dc.subject.keywordapplied linguistics research articles
dc.titleContrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles
dc.typeJournal article
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