An Intercultural Analysis of Personal Metadiscourse in English and Chinese Commencement Speeches

Autor/in	Zhu, Yuting
Titel	An Intercultural Analysis of Personal Metadiscourse in English and Chinese Commencement Speeches
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 9 (2018) 5, S.100-110 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	English; Chinese; Contrastive Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Speeches; Computational Linguistics; Classification; Social Differences; Cultural Differences; Intercultural Communication; Graduation; Higher Education; Reputation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English language; Englisch; China; Chinesen; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Diskursanalyse; Computerlinguistik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Sozialer Unterschied; Kultureller Unterschied; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Abschluss; Graduierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	The existing metadiscourse studies on the comparison of English and Chinese language are relatively few, especially on spoken discourse. The present study examines the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches based on Ädel's reflexive model of metadiscourse and its adaption. The corpus for this study comprises 60 commencement speeches--30 Chinese and 30 English--delivered in prestigious American and Chinese universities respectively. This study investigates (1) The similarities and differences in the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches; (2) the possible reasons behind these similarities and differences. Qualitative and quantitative analysis indicates that American speeches feature markedly more personal metadiscourse than Chinese speeches. Textual analysis further reveals some similarities and differences in the discourse functions of personal metadiscourse between two sets of texts due to genre characteristics and social-cultural differences. The findings of this study provide some insight into the classification of Chinese metadiscourse and the awareness of cross-cultural communication. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01