Part I: Academic Genres.- CHAPTER 1: So what do we have here? An engineering lecturer’s metadiscursive use of rhetorical questions in L1 and English-medium instruction (Sarah Khan and Marta Aguilar).- CHAPTER 2: Distribution Patterns of Stance Features in English and Russian Conference Presentations (Galiya Gatiyatullina, Marina Solnyskina, Roman Kupriyanov and Elzara Gafiyatova).- CHAPTER 3: A metadiscoursal approach to academic writers’ construal of identities across brief reports and case reports in medical science (Sabiha Choura).- CHAPTER 4: Metadiscourse Learning Trajectories in Multilingual Learners: A Focus on Attitude Markers and Hedges (Sofía Martín-Laguna).- CHAPTER 5: A contrastive analysis of metadiscourse by native and EFL lecturers in Chinese university MOOCs (Dongyun Zhang and Diyun Sheng).- Part II: Non-academic Genres.- CHAPTER 6: Using Twitter for public dissemination and engagement with science: metadiscourse in the Twitter of scientific organisations (María José Luzón).- CHAPTER 7: Persuasion through interactional metadiscourse of management statements of European renewable energy companies (Maria Cristina Urloi and Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido).- CHAPTER 8: On the metadiscursive dimension of travel blog posts: a cross-linguistic analysis (Giuliana Diani).- CHAPTER 9: ‘I think, you know…’: A corpus-based analysis of Metadiscourse in Malaysian Online Podcasts (Syamimi Turiman and Siti Aeisha Joharry).
Begoña Bellés-Fortuño is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
Lucía Bellés-Calvera is a PhD part-time adjunct lecturer at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
Ana-Isabel Martínez-Hernández is a part-time adjunct lecturer in the Department of Translation and Communication Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
“Building on a familiar and well-established tradition, this monograph explores diverse spaces around the concept of metadiscourse to offer new ways of understanding textual and interpersonal discursive strategies in both academic settings and online promotional genres based on fresh textual evidence.”
—Francisco Alonso Almeida, Professor in Modern Languages, Translation and Interpretation Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
“New Trends on Metadiscourse combines research methods and integrates hot issues such as identity, learning progression, cross-disciplinary and generic variation and persuasion strategies under a multilingual and multicultural gaze.”
—Carmen Sancho Guinda, senior lecturerin Applied Linguistics to Science and Technology Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
This edited book gives an updated overview of methods of analysis of academic and non-academic genres in a digital era. The advent of digital and social media has deeply transformed academic and non-academic communication practices in the past two decades. The linguistic landscape is now a multilayered one; multicultural issues and cross-linguistic aspects are addressed in a way to understand how linguistically and culturally diverse identities try to find pathways. The book contains nine chapters divided into two main sections corresponding to academic and non-academic texts where written, spoken and digital genres are examined from different perspectives. This book provides an up-to-date and innovative view of metadiscourse research and develops new research methodologies, drawing on visual research methods and combinations of qualitative and quantitative approaches from fields including Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Genre Analysis.
Begoña Bellés-Fortuño is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
Lucía Bellés-Calvera is a junior lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at Universitat de València, Spain.
Ana-Isabel Martínez-Hernández is a part-time adjunct lecturer in the Department of Translation and Communication Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.