Dear MAGily,
We are happy to announce that an open-access special issue on #Metadiscourse, edited by Erdem Akbas and Ciler Hatipoglu, is now released by Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice!
Please see the editorial and table of contents of the issue entitled ''Metadiscourse Variations across Academic Genres: Rhetorical Preferences in Textual and Interpersonal Markers''.
The special issue covers the following 10 articles on Metadiscourse in academic genres:
- Annelie Ädel ''Variation in Metadiscursive “You” Across Genres: From Research Articles to Teacher Feedback''
- Claire Rodway ''Metadiscourse Use in a Dialogic Feedback Practice''
- Vesna Bogdanović , Ivana Mirovic ''Young Researchers Writing in ESL and the Use of Metadiscourse: Learning the Ropes''
- Erdem Akbas, Jan Hardman ''Strengthening or Weakening Claims in Academic Knowledge Construction: A Comparative Study of Hedges and Boosters in Postgraduate Academic Writing''
- Sheena Gardner , Chao Han ''Transitions of Contrast in Chinese and English University Student Writing''
- Melanie Andresen, Heike Zinsmeister ''Stylistic Differences between Closely Related Disciplines: Metadiscourse in German Linguistics and Literary Studies''
- Hmoud S. Alotaibi ''Metadiscourse in Dissertation Acknowledgments: Exploration of Gender Differences in EFL Texts''
- Hanna Martikainen ''Modal Markers as Potential Sources of Distortion in Translated Medical Abstracts''
- Alessandra Molino ''What I’m Speaking is almost English…: A Corpus-based Study of Metadiscourse in English-medium Lectures at an Italian University''
- Ciler Hatipoglu , Sedef Algı ''Catch a Tiger by the Toe: Modal Hedges in EFL Argumentative Paragraphs''
You can download the whole issue from ESTP
METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES:
MAPPING INTERACTION
IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES