Study of Metadiscourse in ESP Articles: A Comparison of English Articles written by Iranian and English Native Speakers
Keywords:
Metadiscourse; ESP articles; Iranian writers; English writersAbstract
This study aims to examine the use of interactive and
interactional metadiscursive features in ESP articles written by Iranian
and English native speakers. The analysis is based on a corpus of 15
research articles from Persian-written and 15 from English-written in
ESP field. The selected corpus was analyzed through the model
suggested by Hyland (2005). Results of the study showed that both
groups used interactive and interactional features in their articles. In
both groups, writers used an interactive metadiscourse more than an
interactional one. Moreover, there were significant differences on the
particular occurrence of some categories in interactive and interactional
features.
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