Employment of stance adverbials as hedges and boosters in argumentative essays of native American and nonnative Turkish university students
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| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (Uluslararası alan indekslerindeki dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
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| Makale Dili | – | Basım Tarihi | 01-2014 |
| Makale Linki | https://search.proquest.com/openview/6f5122ba2c7d33919c7bf19c5583fd63/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2026366&diss=y | ||
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| The growth of discourse analysis as a key tool in understanding language use, has led to the idea of the importance of interaction in writing. Thus, the concept of metadiscourse has emerged as a way of representing the writer's awareness of the unfolding text as discourse. Metadiscourse is based on a view of writing as social engagement and especially considered to be essential element of persuasive and argumentative writing (Crismore & Farnsworth 1990; Hyland, 2004). Among the metadiscourse markers, hedges and boosters are two crucial devices helping writers to express their authorial stance in their products. Writing argumentative texts is a challenge for the students not only in their mother tongue but also in their foreign language (s). They seem to experience difficulties in producing texts, which clearly interact with the reader (s), guide the reader in the process of reception and interpretation of the text … |
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