First released in 2005, Ken Hyland's Metadiscourse has become a
canonical account of how language is used in written communication.
'Metadiscourse' is defined as the ways that writers reflect on
their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text
itself. It is a key resource in language as it allows the writer to
engage with readers in familiar and expected ways and as such it is
an important tool for students of academic writing in both the L1
and L2 context. This book achieves for main goals: - to provide an
accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and
importance in written communication and reviewing current thinking
on the topic - to explore examples of metadiscourse in a range of
texts from business, academic, journalistic, and student writing -
to offer a new theory of metadiscourse - to show the relevance of
this theory to students, academics and language teachers The book
shows how writers use the devices of metadiscourse to adjust the
level of personality in their texts, to offer a representation of
themselves and their arguments. It shows how these tools help the
reader organise, interpret and evaluate the information presented
in the text. Knowing how to identify metadiscourse as a reader is a
key skill to be learnt by students of discourse analysis and this
book makes this a central goal.
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