The Use of Metadiscourse Markers in the Academic Writing of Hard and Soft Domains

Mohammad M. ALIA; Nayef J. JOMAA; Kamariah YUNUS

Makale detayları

The Use of Metadiscourse Markers in the Academic Writing of Hard and Soft Domains

Yazarlar:

Mohammad M. ALIA | Nayef J. JOMAA | Kamariah YUNUS

Yayıncı:

Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Humanities and Tourism Research 2020 Vol.10 Issue 3, pp.627-644

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000740199

Sıklık:

Aylık

pISSN:

2717-7092

Özet:

 

The authorial voice is a significant aspect in the academic genres. Therefore, the issue of metadiscourse markers has been analysed by several studies. Hence, this study explores the use of metadiscourse in the abstracts of 100 journal articles published in ten Scopus indexed journals listed as the top free access journals based on the Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR) website. Five journals belong to the hard domain, whereas the other five journals belong to the soft domain. The Systemic Functional Linguistics approach (SFL) was adopted to analyse the frequency and wordings of modality within the 100 abstracts. Data were analysed manually qualitatively and quantitatively in order to highlight the possible similarities and differences between the abstracts of the hard domain and the soft one. The findings showed that the writers of both sets of abstracts employed finite modal operators, verbs, mood adjuncts, and comment adjuncts in expressing modality. These metadiscourse markers expressed different types, value, and orientation regarding modalization and modulation. Consequently, these findings could be employed pedagogically to equip novice writers with the linguistic skills that basically contribute to their academic success in writing academic genres.

Makale detayları

The Use of Metadiscourse Markers in the Academic Writing of Hard and Soft Domains

Yazarlar: Mohammad M. ALIA | Nayef J. JOMAA | Kamariah YUNUS

Yayıncı: Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Journal of Humanities and Tourism Research 2020 Vol.10 Issue 3, pp.627-644

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2020

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000740199

Sıklık: Aylık

pISSN: 2717-7092

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mohammad M. ALIA | Nayef J. JOMAA | Kamariah YUNUS

Yayıncı:

Karabuk University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Humanities and Tourism Research 2020 Vol.10 Issue 3, pp.627-644

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2020

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000740199

Sıklık:

Aylık

pISSN:

2717-7092