Texts with metadiscourse features are more engaging: a fact or a myth?
Metadiscourse is a pragmatic linguistic device that writers use to engage with their readers. For decades, research on metadiscourse has mostly centred on academic texts. There were also attempts to examine its use in editorials. However, in this study, attempts are made to investigate the reade...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16537/1/39943-145049-3-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16537/ https://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1364 |
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| Summary: | Metadiscourse is a pragmatic linguistic device that writers use to engage with their readers. For decades,
research on metadiscourse has mostly centred on academic texts. There were also attempts to examine its use in
editorials. However, in this study, attempts are made to investigate the readers’ responses on the use and non-use
of metadiscourse in online business news. To gain insights on this objective, thirty participants from a local public
university in Malaysia participated in the study. The findings showed that most of the participants preferred to
read news with textual metadiscourse because it was clearer, while 16.67% of the participants preferred to read
news without textual metadiscourse. The findings also revealed that 93.33% of the participants preferred to read
news with interpersonal metadiscourse because it was more engaging, while only 6.67% of the participants
preferred to read news without interpersonal metadiscourse. The findings revealed the importance of
metadiscourse in business news writings, and as such, texts constructed with and without the presence of
metadiscourse could be useful teaching resources for writing instructors in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
writing classrooms. |
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