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On the use of rhetorical questions in tweets related to the Russia-Ukrainian war: Podolyak vs Polyanskiy 关于俄乌战争相关推文中反问句的使用：波多里亚克与波良斯基

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-75

Špago Džemal

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It’s complicated: The relationship between lexis, syntax and proficiency 这很复杂：词法、句法和熟练程度之间的关系

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-124

Christopher Williams

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The winner takes it all: Stance and engagement markers in successful project proposal abstracts funded by ERC 赢家通吃：欧洲研究理事会资助的成功项目提案摘要中的立场和参与标记

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-98

Jolanta Sinkuniene, Augustinas Melinskas

{"title":"The winner takes it all: Stance and engagement markers in successful project proposal abstracts funded by ERC","authors":"Jolanta Sinkuniene, Augustinas Melinskas","doi":"10.5817/di2023-2-98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/di2023-2-98","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to investigate frequency and distribution patterns of stance and engagement markers across different science fields in European Research Council funded project proposal abstracts. Three science fields analysed using corpus-based quantitative and qualitative methodology are life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities. A corpus consisting of 90 project proposal abstracts was compiled and each text was examined for stance and engagement markers following Hyland’s (2005b) framework of stance and engagement. The results show that stance markers were used much more frequently than engagement markers in all science fields analysed. However, it was found that compared to writers in social sciences and humanities, authors of life sciences and physical sciences and engineering abstracts tended to use more stance markers which may suggest a greater importance placed on creating a stronger authorial persona. In social sciences and humanities abstracts, on the other hand, engagement markers were more frequent than in the other two fields, which may imply that their texts are slightly more reader focused. The results of the study shed light on competitive funding discourse which is still scarcely researched, as well as reveal strategies and techniques used to create effective scientific discourse.","PeriodicalId":38177,"journal":{"name":"Discourse and Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Refusal and politeness strategies favoured among Iraqi and Malaysian learners in marriage proposals 伊拉克和马来西亚学习者在求婚时偏爱的拒绝和礼貌策略

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-29

Ali Qassim Tabarek, Abbas Nawal Fadhel, Mei Hooi Chee

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A pragmatic approach to the rhetorical analysis and the metadiscourse markers of research article abstracts in the field of applied linguistics 应用语言学领域研究文章摘要的修辞分析和元话语标记的实用主义方法

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-51

E. Hasan, Alsout Ergaya

{"title":"A pragmatic approach to the rhetorical analysis and the metadiscourse markers of research article abstracts in the field of applied linguistics","authors":"E. Hasan, Alsout Ergaya","doi":"10.5817/di2023-2-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/di2023-2-51","url":null,"abstract":"Using Hyland’s (2000) model as a research tool and drawing on Hyland’s (2005a) model of metadiscourse, this article presents a pragmatic two-level rhetorical analysis of the constituent moves within research article abstracts. It specifically zeroes in on the identification and mapping of the most frequently used metadiscourse markers signifying these moves. The findings highlight that Libyan authors employ interactive markers more often than interactional ones. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis of metadiscourse indicate that transitions, endophoric markers, and frame markers emerge as the dominant interactive categories. In contrast, interactional metadiscourse is predominantly represented by attitude markers, hedges, and boosters. Based on the findings, Move 1 features the highest frequency of metadiscourse markers, followed by Move 2. Notably, transitions stand out as the most prevalent category across all moves. This study carries pedagogical implications for academic writing practices among Libyan academic writers and students alike. Moreover, it enhances the existing body of research on the genre of research articles.","PeriodicalId":38177,"journal":{"name":"Discourse and Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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First language and second language English editorialists’ use of interactional metadiscourse 第一语言和第二语言英语社论作者使用互动元话语的情况

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-2-5

Sharif Alghazo, Khulood Al-Anbar, Abdel Rahman Altakhaineh, Marwan Jarrah

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Recontextualising "Doing a doctoral degree" as a social practice complex: Evidence from Malaysia 将“攻读博士学位”重新定义为一种社会实践情结：来自马来西亚的证据

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-1-47

T. De Rycker

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“Where got I that truth?” An analysis of external sources in English and Persian news reports on Syria “我从哪里得到那个真理?”对有关叙利亚的英语和波斯语新闻报道的外部来源的分析

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-1-118

A. Rezaee, Mohammad Mozaffari

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The rhetoric of 'internal' branding in Nigeria's rebranding campaign 尼日利亚品牌重塑运动中的“内部”品牌修辞

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-1-5

A. Adegoju

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Apocalyptic representation of COVID-19: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the World Health Organization's discourse practices COVID-19的启示录表现:世界卫生组织话语实践的语料库辅助话语分析

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.5817/di2023-1-25

Sadiq Altamimi

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