Persuasion and context: The pragmatics of academic metadiscourse

  • Hyland, K
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Publication date
January 1998
Publisher
NEN Netherlands Standardization Institute
ISSN
0378-2166
Journal
Journal of Pragmatics

Abstract

Metadiscourse refers to aspects of a text which explicitly organise the discourse, engage the audience and signal the writer's attitude. Its use by writers to guide readers and display an appropriate professional persona is an important aspect of persuasive writing. Its role in establishing and maintaining contact between the writer and the reader and between the writer and the message also makes it a central pragmatic concept. Based on a textual analysis of 28 research articles in four academic disciplines, this paper seeks to show how the appropriate use of metadiscourse crucially depends on rhetorical context. The study identifies a taxonomy of metadiscourse functions and suggests that metadiscourse reflects one way in which context and ...

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