Gender-based Study of Interactive Metadiscourse Markers in Children's Narrative Production

The aim of this study is to seek the interpersonal model of Hyland (2005) used in children’s narration of the emperor's new clothes narrated by boys and girls, aged between 8 to10. These narrations were transcribed and were categorized into two groups of male and female speakers: 8 transcriptions belonged to female speakers and other 8 transcriptions belonged to male speakers. The interactive markers were counted and analyzed to find if male or female children utilize these metadiscourse markers differently or similarly in their narrations. The descriptive analysis show that both male and female children applied the interactive markers (transitions) in their narrations

Keywords:

Metadiscourse , Interactive Metadiscourse Markers , Transitions