Hyland, Ken. (2009) Metadiscourse: mapping interactions in academic writing. Nordic Journal of English Studies, Vol.9 (No.2). pp. 125-143. ISSN 1654-6970

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Abstract

Metadiscourse in the argument presented here is based on a view of communication as social engagement and in academic contexts reveals the ways writers project themselves into their discourse to signal their understandings of their material and their audience. In this paper I explore how advanced second language writers deploy these resources in a corpus of 240 doctoral and masters dissertations totalling four million words. The analysis suggests that writers use language to offer a credible representation of themselves and their work in different fields, and thus how metadiscourse can be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social distinctiveness of disciplinary communities.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Journal or Publication Title:	Nordic Journal of English Studies
Publisher:	Goeteborgs Universitet * Engelska Institutionen
ISSN:	1654-6970
Date:	2009
Volume:	Vol.9
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	19
Page Range:	pp. 125-143
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Version or Related Resource:	This item was also presented at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) Conference 2008, Essen, Germany, Aug 24-29, 2008.
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/48555

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