Texts with metadiscourse features are more engaging: a fact or a myth?

• Main Authors: Hooi, Chee Mei, Tan, Helen, Lee, Geok Imm, Sharon Sharmini Victor Danarajan,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
• 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

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...