A corpus-based study of metadiscourse markers in English and Urdu
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2018/09/0024/000357Keywords:
Metadiscourse, interactional markers, corpusAbstract
Interactional metadiscourse markers are self-reflective linguistic expressions that give writers a stronger presence in an interaction (Hyland, 2004). In this study, a large corpus was compiled from English and Urdu newspapers. The compiled corpus was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively, drawing results based on Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction. The quantitative findings demonstrate that news writers in both English and Urdu prefer to shape the viewpoint of their readers through personal judgments when deploying stance markers. The contrastive analysis of interaction markers across both corpora reveals that Urdu journalistic discourse is more persuasive, convincing, and influential, as it contains a higher frequency of interaction markers compared to English journalistic discourse.
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> *Note: Adjusted the publisher field to Continuum, the original publisher of this seminal work.*
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