Metadiscourse

Exploring Interaction in Writing

By: Professor Ken Hyland

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Paperback | 12 September 2005 | Edition Number 1

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This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE.

Metadiscourse is a key resource in language, as it allows the writer to engage with readers in familiar and expected ways. Writers use the devices of metadiscourse to adjust the level of personality in their texts, to offer a representation of themselves and their arguments. This helps the reader organise, interpret and evaluate the information presented in the text. Metadiscourse is therefore crucial to successful communication.

Knowing how to identify metadiscourse as a reader is a key skill to be learnt by students of discourse analysis. Learning how to use metadiscourse in writing is an important tool for students of academic writing in both the L1 and L2 context.

This book has four main purposes:

- to provide an accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication and reviewing current thinking on the topic.
- to explore examples of metadiscourse in a range of texts from business, academic, journalistic, and student writing
- to offer a new theory of metadiscourse
- to show the relevance of this theory to students, academics and language teachers.

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'...accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication...a valuable and comprehensive study, which not only imposes relevant questions, but provides valid answers in regards to this subject establishing new directions for future investigations.'--Alexander Carapic "Linguist List "

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
What is metadiscourse?	p. 1
First impressions	p. 3
A brief overview of metadiscourse	p. 3
A context of emergence: information and interaction	p. 6
Metadiscourse and audience awareness	p. 9
Metadiscourse, interaction and audience	p. 11
Summary and conclusion	p. 14
Definitions, issues and classifications	p. 16
Definitions of metadiscourse	p. 16
Propositional and metadiscourse meanings	p. 18
'Levels of meaning'	p. 21
Functional analyses	p. 24
'Textual' and 'interpersonal' functions	p. 26
Metadiscourse signals	p. 27
Categorizations of metadiscourse	p. 32
Summary and conclusions	p. 35
A metadiscourse model	p. 37
Key principles of metadiscourse	p. 37
A classification of metadiscourse	p. 48
Metadiscourse resources	p. 50
An illustration: metadiscourse in postgraduate writing	p. 54
The limits of description	p. 58
Summary and conclusions	p. 59
Metadiscourse in practice	p. 61
Metadiscourse and rhetoric	p. 63
The concept of rhetoric	p. 63
Academic discourse and rhetoric	p. 65
Metadiscourse, ethos and The Origin of Species	p. 67
Business discourse and metadiscourse	p. 71
Metadiscourse and rhetoric in company annual reports	p. 73
Summary and conclusions	p. 85
Metadiscourse and genre	p. 87
The concept of genre	p. 87
Metadiscourse and genre	p. 88
Metadiscourse in academic research articles	p. 89
Metadiscourse in popular science articles	p. 93
Metadiscourse in introductory textbooks	p. 101
Summary and conclusions	p. 111
Metadiscourse and culture	p. 113
Culture and language	p. 113
Metadiscourse across languages	p. 116
Metadiscourse and writing in English	p. 124
Interactive metadiscourse in English	p. 124
Interactional metadiscourse in English	p. 128
Summary and conclusions	p. 136
Metadiscourse and community	p. 138
The concept of community	p. 138
Community, academic writing and metadiscourse	p. 141
Metadiscourse variation in articles across disciplines	p. 143
Interactional metadiscourse in articles across disciplines	p. 144
Interactive metadiscourse in articles across disciplines	p. 156
Metadiscourse variation in textbooks across disciplines	p. 161
Interactional metadiscourse in textbooks across disciplines	p. 163
Interactive metadiscourse in textbooks across disciplines	p. 166
Summary and conclusions	p. 170
Issues and implications	p. 173
Metadiscourse in the classroom	p. 175
Students, writing and audience awareness	p. 175
Advantages of teaching metadiscourse features	p. 178
Some teaching principles	p. 181
Some teaching strategies	p. 185
Summary and conclusions	p. 192
Issues and directions	p. 194
Metadiscourse and the socially situated writer	p. 194
Metadiscourse and interpersonal engagement	p. 195
Metadiscourse and discourse variation	p. 196
Metadiscourse and classroom practice	p. 197
Methodological issues	p. 198
Some implications and remaining issues	p. 199
Further research	p. 200
References	p. 204
Metadiscourse items investigated	p. 218
Subject Index	p. 225
Author Index	p. 228
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