Metadiscourse in Written Genres: Uncovering Textual and Interactional Aspects of Texts

by Ciler Hatipoglu (Editor), Erdem Akbas (Editor), Yasemin Bayyurt (Editor)

Overview

Taking metadiscourse as their starting point, the articles in this book focus both on the interactive and cross-cultural aspects of written texts in varying genres. They compare and contrast rich data from an intriguing mixture of languages to substantially advance our understanding of the communicative nature of written texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631720622
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Edition description:	New
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ciler Hatipoglu holds a PhD from UWE, Bristol. She has published extensively in areas such as metadiscourse in academic writing, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, and language and gender. She is a member of the team that developed the first Spoken Turkish Corpus in Turkey.

Erdem Akbas holds a PhD from the University of York and has presented his research extensively at various reputable international conferences. He has published articles in national and international journals/books.

Yasemin Bayyurt is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her current research focuses on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)/World Englishes (WEs), mobile/blended learning, intercultural communication, and metadiscourse in academic writing.

Table of Contents

Metadiscourse in written genres – Hedges, boosters, attitudinal markers, authorial stance – Causal markers – Expert corpora versus learner corpora – PhD theses, MA dissertations, undergraduate student essays, book reviews, business letters – Appraisal theory, Socially informed and process oriented models.