Contents Acknowledgements Prefacexviii xix Section 1: What is metadiscourse?1 Chapter 1First impressions3 1.1A brief overview of metadiscourse3 1.2A context of emergence: information and interaction6 1.3Metadiscourse and audience awareness9 1.4Metadiscourse, interaction and audience11 1.5Summary and conclusion14 Chapter 2Definitions, issues and classifications16 2.1Definitions of metadiscourse16 2.2Propositional and metadiscourse meanings18 2.3''Levels of meaning''21 2.4Functional analyses24 2.5''Textual'' and ''interpersonal'' functions26 2.6Metadiscourse signals27 2.7Categorizations of metadiscourse32 2.8Summary and conclusions35 Chapter 3A metadiscourse model37 3.1Key principles of metadiscourse37 3.2A classification of metadiscourse48 3.3Metadiscourse resources50 3.4An illustration: metadiscourse in postgraduate writing54 3.5The limits of description58 3.6Summary and conclusions59
Section 2: Metadiscourse in practice61 Chapter 4Metadiscourse and rhetoric63 4.1The concept of rhetoric63 4.2Academic discourse and rhetoric65 4.3Metadiscourse, ethos and The Origin of Species67 4.4Business discourse and metadiscourse71 4.5Metadiscourse and rhetoric in company annual reports73 4.6Summary and conclusions85 Chapter 5Metadiscourse and genre87 5.1The concept of genre87 5.2Metadiscourse and genre88 5.3Metadiscourse in academic research articles89 5.4Metadiscourse in popular science articles93 5.5Metadiscourse in introductory textbooks101 5.6Summary and conclusions111 Chapter 6Metadiscourse and culture113 6.1Culture and language113 6.2Metadiscourse across languages116 6.3Metadiscourse and writing in English124 6.4Interactive metadiscourse in English124 6.5Interactional me
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