Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English / Annelie Adel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ädel, Annelie.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 24.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Reflexives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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. Ädel 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.

Contents:

Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1. Background

1.2. Aims

1.3. Material

1.4. Method

1.5. Outline of the study

2. A model of metadiscourse

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Personal and impersonal types of metadiscourse

2.3. The present model

2.4. Definition of metadiscourse

2.4.1. Generalisations about metadiscourse

2.4.2. Features for identifying metadiscourse

2.5. Applying the features to personal metadiscourse

2.5.1. First person singular I

2.5.2. First person plural we

2.5.3. Second person you

2.6. Delimiting the categories

2.6.1. 'Metatext' and 'writer-reader interaction'

2.6.2. Stance markers

2.6.3. Participation

2.6.4. Connecting the categories

2.7. Conclusion

3. Personal metadiscourse

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Quantifying personal metadiscourse

3.3. Distribution of personal metadiscourse

3.4. The density of metadiscourse

3.5. The discourse functions of personal metadiscourse

3.5.1. Metatext

3.5.2. Writer-reader interaction

3.5.3. Distribution of discourse functions

3.6. Other references to the writer and reader

3.6.1. Oblique forms of I, we and you

3.6.2. Pronominal one

3.6.3. Nouns that refer to the writer and reader

3.7. The writer persona

3.7.1. Roles of the writer persona

3.7.2. The hermeneutics of the text made explicit

3.7.3. Tentativeness in the learner essays

3.8. Conclusion

4. Impersonal metadiscourse

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Distribution of impersonal metadiscourse

4.3. The discourse functions of impersonal metadiscourse

4.3.1. Phorics

4.3.2. References to the Text/Code

4.3.3. Code Glosses

4.3.4. Discourse Labels

4.4. Conclusion

5. The textual distribution of metadiscourse.

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Textual distribution of personal metadiscourse

5.3. Textual distribution of impersonal metadiscourse

5.4. Textual distribution of questions

5.5. Textual distribution of exclamations

5.6. Conclusion

6. Possible causes of variation in metadiscourse use

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Genre comparability

6.3. Register awareness

6.4. Cultural conventions

6.5. Learner strategies

6.6. Conclusion

7. Theories of metadiscourse

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Metalanguage

7.2.1. Metalanguage versus object language

7.2.2. Use versus mention

7.2.3. On the meanings of metalanguage

7.2.4. Metatextual versus intertextual

7.3. Functional perspectives on language

7.3.1. The metalinguistic function

7.3.2. Reflexivity

7.4. Two approaches to metadiscourse

7.4.1. The broad approach

7.4.2. Stance

7.4.3. The narrow approach

7.5. Conclusion

8. Conclusions

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The theory of metadiscourse

8.3. Metadiscourse in corpus studies

8.4. The use of metadiscourse

8.5. Future research

8.6. Final remarks

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

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155413

9781282155411

1282155415

9789027293299

9027293295

OCLC:

560477761

Publisher Number:

9789027222978