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    Metadiscourse analysis of digital interpersonal interactions in academic settings in Turkey

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    Rapid technological advances, efficiency and easy access have firmly established emailing as a vital medium of communication in the last decades. Nowadays, all around the world, particularly in educational settings, the medium is one of the most widely used modes of interaction between students and university lecturers. Despite their important role in academic life, very little is known about the metadiscursive characteristics of these e-messages and as far as the author is aware there is no study that has examined metadiscourse in request emails in Turkish. This study aims to contribute to filling in this gap by focusing on the following two research questions: (i) How many and what type of interpersonal metadiscourse markers are used in request emails sent by students to their lecturers? (ii) Where are they placed and how are they combined with other elements in the text? In order to answer these questions a corpus of unsolicited request e-mails in Turkish was compiled. The data collection started in January 2010 and continued until March 2018. A total of 353 request emails sent from university students to their lecturers were collected. The data were first transcribed in CLAN CHILDES format and analysed using the interpersonal model. The metadiscourse categories that aimed to involve readers in the email were identified and classified. Next, their places in the text were determined and described in detail. Findings of the study show that request emails include a wide array of multifunctional interpersonal metadiscourse markers which are intricately combined and employed by the writers to reach their aims. The results also showed that there is a close relation between the “weight of the request” and number of the interpersonal metadiscourse markers in request mails

    Metadiscourse: What is it and where is it going?

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    Metadiscourse – the ways in which writers and speakers interact through their use of language with readers and listeners – is a widely used term in current discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching. This interest has grown up over the past 40 years driven by a dual purpose. The first is a desire to understand the relationship between language and its contexts of use. That is, how individuals use language to orient to and interpret particular communicative situations, and especially how they draw on their understandings of these to make their intended meanings clear to their interlocutors. The second is to employ this knowledge in the service of language and literacy education. But while many researchers and teachers find it to be a conceptually rich and analytically powerful idea, it is not without difficulties of definition, categorisation and analysis. In this paper I explore the strengths and shortcomings of the concept and map its influence and directions through a state of the art analysis of the main online academic databases and current published research

    “You’re trolling because
” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs

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    This paper investigates the linguistically marked motives that participants attribute to those they call trolls in 991 comment threads of three British political blogs. The study is concerned with how these motives affect the discursive construction of trolling and trolls. Another goal of the paper is to examine whether the mainly emotional motives ascribed to trolls in the academic literature correspond with those that the participants attribute to the alleged trolls in the analysed threads. The paper identifies five broad motives ascribed to trolls: emotional/mental health-related/social reasons, financial gain, political beliefs, being employed by a political body, and unspecified political affiliation. It also points out that depending on these motives, trolling and trolls are constructed in various ways. Finally, the study argues that participants attribute motives to trolls not only to explain their behaviour but also to insult them

    A Corpus‐Based Study of Idioms in Academic Speech

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    Studies on Metadiscourse since the 3rd Millennium

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    Metadiscourse refer to linguistic resources that are used to refer to the act and the context of writing about some subject matter. Study of metadiscourse provides a gateway for understanding interactional features of texts or speech, looking beyond the ideational dimension of texts at how writers characterize the world and function interpersonally. The ability of writers to use metadiscourse effectively, to control the level of personality in their texts by offering a credible representation of themselves and their ideas, is seen as a defining feature of successful writing (Hyland, 2008). This paper provides a literature review of the theories in modelling metadiscourse and the studies investigating metadiscourse for the past 15 years, and propose future research directions based on the review. Keywords: Metadiscourse, interactional features, literature revie

    Language and Linguistics in a Complex World Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation. ICAME41 Extended Book of Abstracts

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    This is a collection of papers, work-in-progress reports, and other contributions that were part of the ICAME41 digital conference

    Language and Linguistics in a Complex World Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation. ICAME41 Extended Book of Abstracts

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    This is a collection of papers, work-in-progress reports, and other contributions that were part of the ICAME41 digital conference

    Metadiscourse in Online Opinion Texts : Exploring variation within a genre

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    The purpose of this study is to analyse the use of metadiscourse in English speaking opinion writing on blogs, news sites and the websites of newspapers. Metadiscourse is a theoretical framework for describing linguistic constructions used to structure or comment on the discourse of a text. How metadiscourse is used depends on the genre and the audience of the text. Previous research, much of which has been qualitative, has shown that metadiscourse is used in opinion writing partly to make the author’s viewpoint more organised and understandable, partly to appeal to the audience in a more direct manner. The aim of this study is to describe how different types of metadiscourse correlate with each other, that is, which types of metadiscourse often occur in the same text. The method used is Multi-Dimensional Analysis, a corpus-driven quantitative method based on Factor Analysis. The data used is a collection of blogposts and opinion articles; the corpus of 285,000 words has been annotated with 13 metadiscourse marker categories. The Multi-dimensional analysis yields four statistically significant factors that describe the rhetorical strategies used to acknowledge the elements in the text and the presence of the author and the reader. The four factors are named according to their functions as (1) Writer-oriented text, (2) Solidarity, (3) Reader-oriented text, and (4) Intertextuality. The analysis compares blogs, news sites and the websites of newspapers from the perspective of genre analysis. The results show a range of variation between writers of the same genre, but in general opinion writing from the websites of newspapers is low on metadiscourse and it is used mainly to refer to cited sources. Meanwhile, news sites tend to refer to the reader through the pronoun “you” or the pronoun “we”, which in context can be understood to include the reader. Bloggers refer more often to themselves than to their readers and rarely use the inclusive “we”. The genres blogs and news sites also contain the least explicit references to sources. This study is an example of how metadiscourse can be analysed using a Multi-dimensional method. Even a study based on a smaller dataset can yield information that can be used to develop the theoretical framework of metadiscourse.Syftet för denna avhandling Ă€r att analysera anvĂ€ndning av metadiskurs i engelsksprĂ„kiga blogginlĂ€gg och debattartiklar frĂ„n tidningars nyhetssajter och webbsajter. Metadiskurs Ă€r ett teoretiskt ramverk som omfattar sprĂ„kliga konstruktioner som strukturerar eller kommenterar diskursen i en text. Hur metadiskurs anvĂ€nds beror pĂ„ textens genre och mĂ„lgrupp. Tidigare forskning, som för det mesta Ă€r kvalitativ, har visat att metadiskurs anvĂ€nds i argumenterande text, dels för att göra skribentens synpunkt logisk och lĂ€ttförstĂ„elig, dels för att vĂ€dja till lĂ€saren pĂ„ ett mera direkt sĂ€tt. I denna avhandling studeras hur olika sorters typer av metadiskurs korrelerar med varandra i argumenterande text, d.v.s. vilka konstruktioner förekommer tillsammans inom samma text. Som metod anvĂ€nds multidimensionell analys, en korpus-driven kvantitativ metod som bygger pĂ„ faktoranalys. Som korpus anvĂ€nds en samling av engelsksprĂ„kiga blogginlĂ€gg och debattartiklar pĂ„ sammanlagt dryga 285 000 ord som annoterats med 13 metadiskurskategorier. Resultaten utgörs av fyra statistiskt signifikanta faktorer som kan anvĂ€ndas för att beskriva vilka strategier som anvĂ€nds i texterna för att kommentera texten, skribentens eller lĂ€sarnas nĂ€rvaro. De fyra faktorerna Ă€r nĂ€mnda enligt sin funktion: (1) Skribent-orienterad text, (2) Solidaritet, (3) LĂ€sar-orienterad text, och (4) Intertextualitet. Analysen jĂ€mför genrerna blogg, nyhetssajt och tidningars webbsajt ur en genreanalytisk synvinkel. Data tyder pĂ„ variation mellan skribenter inom samma genre, men artiklar pĂ„ webbsajter för tidningar som ocksĂ„ har en pappersversion innehĂ„ller i allmĂ€nhet endast litet metadiskurs, frĂ€mst för att syfta till citerade kĂ€llor. DĂ€remot brukar nyhetssajter utan pappersversion göra referens till lĂ€saren antingen genom pronomenet "you" eller genom pronomenet "we" som i kontext kan förstĂ„s innefatta ocksĂ„ lĂ€saren. Bloggare syftar oftare till sig sjĂ€lva Ă€n till sina lĂ€sare och anvĂ€nder sĂ€llan det inklusiva pronomenet "we". Genrerna bloggar och nyhetssajter innehĂ„ller ocksĂ„ minst explicita kĂ€llhĂ€nvisningar. Denna studie ett exempel pĂ„ hur metadiskurs kan forskas inom en multidimensionell analys. Även en analys pĂ„ mindre data tillbringar information som kan anvĂ€ndas för att utveckla det teoretiska metadiskurs ramverket
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