Investigating Metadiscourse Markers in Book Reviews and Blurbs: A Study of Interested and Disinterested Genres

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2018-11-13 DOI:10.5755/J01.SAL.0.33.19415

A. Jalilifar, S. Hayati, A. Don

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Abstract

Informed by the need to study metadiscourse, the present study aimed to compare book reviews ‎and blurbs as examples of disinterested and interested genres in four disciplines of applied linguistics, literature, history, and psychology‎. The study relied on two corpora: (a) 200 book reviews in each discipline between 2005 and 2015 (b) 4282 blurbs in the above disciplines within the same time span. To analyze the texts, Hyland’s (2005a) classification of metadiscourse markers was employed. The findings of the study showed that the frequency and type of metadiscourse ‎markers in blurbs and book reviews are genre dependent. Generally, ‎metadiscourse markers preponderated in the book reviews than in the blurbs (44.5 ‎vs. 32.8 per 1000 words), which can be ascribed to the functionally dissimilar communicative ‎purposes of the two genres. ‎The insights gained from this study can be of tremendous help to ‎deepen our understanding of these genres and to show how evaluation and other textual ‎features of writing are verbalized across disciplines and across genres. ‎ DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.33.0.19415

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书评和短文中的元话语标记研究——感兴趣和不感兴趣的体裁研究

考虑到研究元话语的需要，本研究旨在比较书评和简介作为应用语言学、文学、历史和心理学四个学科中无兴趣和感兴趣类型的例子。该研究依赖于两个语料库:(a) 2005年至2015年间每个学科的200篇书评;(b)上述学科在同一时间跨度内的4282篇简介。为了分析文本，我们采用了Hyland(2005)的元话语标记分类。研究结果表明，导语和书评中元话语标记的频率和类型与体裁有关。一般来说，元话语标记在书评中比在简介中占主导地位(44.5 vs。每1000个单词中有32.8个)，这可以归因于两种文体在功能上不同的交际目的。从这项研究中获得的见解可以极大地帮助我们加深对这些体裁的理解，并展示写作的评估和其他文本特征是如何跨学科和跨体裁被语言化的。DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.33.0.19415

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Studies About Languages Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

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期刊介绍： The journal aims at bringing together the scholars interested in languages and technology, linguistic theory development, empirical research of different aspects of languages functioning within a society. The articles published in the journal focus on theoretical and empirical research, including General Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (Translation studies, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Media Linguistics, etc.), Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics. The journal aims at becoming a multidisciplinary venue of sharing ideas and experience among the scholars working in the field.