
Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English
Annelie AEdel(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 12. September 2006
Book
Hardback
243 pages
978-90-272-2297-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 knowledge of metadiscourse use in written English. After comprehensively reviewing previous research, it introduces a more rigorous and empirical approach to metadiscourse studies. AEdel presents a new model of metadiscourse based on Jakobson's functions of language, and other conceptual tools, including explicit features for defining metadiscourse, a taxonomy of the functions it serves, and maps of the boundaries between it and related phenomena. A large-scale study of writing by L1 and L2 university students is presented, in which the L2 speakers' overuse of metadiscourse strongly marks them as lacking in communicative competence. This work is of interest both to linguists and to educators concerned with writing in English.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
575 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2297-8 (9789027222978)
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. A model of metadiscourse; 4. Personal metadiscourse; 5. Impersonal metadiscourse; 6. The textual distribution of metadiscourse; 7. Possible causes of variation in metadiscourse use; 8. Theories of metadiscourse; 9. Conclusions; 10. Appendices; 11. Notes; 12. References; 13. Author index; 14. Subject index