A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in English and Persian University Lectures

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other ۲۰ were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (۲۰۰۵) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied. Finally, native English data were compared to Persian ones. Data were analyzed through Chi-square and findings revealed there were meaningful differences between the two corpora. However, as for boosters, the difference was not meaningful in both lectures.

Keywords:

Metadiscourse , Interactive , Interactional , University Lecture

Authors

Maryam Kahkesh

ELT Department, College of humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Mohammad Alipour

ELT Department, College of humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

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