Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English

Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English / Annelie Ädel.

The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse - commentary on the ongoing discourse - is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our k...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ädel, Annelie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006.
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 24.
Subjects:
English language > Discourse analysis.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Reflexives.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
English language > Discourse analysis
Grammar, Comparative and general > Reflexives
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Table of Contents:
  • Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. A model of metadiscourse; 3. Personal metadiscourse; 4. Impersonal metadiscourse; 5. The textual distribution of metadiscourse; 6. Possible causes of variation in metadiscourse use; 7. Theories of metadiscourse; 8. Conclusions; Appendix 1. Comparability of the corpora; Appendix 2. The control corpus and the norm; Appendix 3. Metadiscourse as non-propositional material?; Appendix 4. Meta-terminology; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index.

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