The Functional Role of Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Journalism : A Contrastive Analysis of Texts Written by American and Iranian EFL Authors

; R.Biria; ; H.R.Haghverdi

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" The Functional Role of Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Journalism : A Contrastive Analysis of Texts Written by American and Iranian EFL Authors "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	155243
Doc. No	:	3399p
Call number	:	‭3399‬
Main Entry	:	Noorian, Mina
Title Proper	:	The Functional Role of Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Journalism : A Contrastive Analysis of Texts Written by American and Iranian EFL Authors
Supervisor	:	; R.Biria
Advisor	:	; H.R.Haghverdi
Date	:	2010
Degree	:	MA
field of study	:	, Teaching English
student score	:	, 1389/06/16, 1388/00/00
Page No	:	117 P.: Table
Note	:	830
Abstract	:	driven conventions, and the Iranian writers extent of foreign language experience. In general, the sociopragmatic contrastive analysis of persuasive texts in this research provided partial evidence for substantiating the universality of metadiscourse and its key role in newspaper opinion articles.Keywords: Contrastive rhetoric; Genre; Metadiscourse markers; Newspaper discourse; Persuasive writing-driven preferences, genre-The present research aimed to explore the role of metadiscourse markers in the opinion articles written by American and Iranian EFL journalists. Two of the leading newspapers in the United States and Iran, The New York Times and Tehran Times, were chosen for the purpose of this study. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of both textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in a corpus of 12 opinion articles (6 from each newspaper), this investigation intended to find out how these two groups of professional writers organized their texts, guided their readers through them, and established a relationship with their audience. Findings revealed that textual and interpersonal metadiscourse were present in both sets of data, but that there were significant differences between the two groups regarding the occurrences of interpersonal markers, specifically in the case of commentaries. The results also suggested that different factors were involved in the choice of metadiscourse markers in newspaper opinion articles written by American and Iranian EFL columnists: culture.
electronic file name	:	3399.pdf
Title and statement of responsibility and	:	The Functional Role of Metadiscourse Markers in Persuasive Journalism : A Contrastive Analysis of Texts Written by American and Iranian EFL Authors [Thesis]; R.Biria; H.R.Haghverdi
Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note	:	Bibliography:P. 99-106