A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Formulaic Language and Meta-Discourse in Linguistics Research Articles by Natives and Arabs: Modeling Saudis and Egyptians

Autor/in	Abdulaal, Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody
Titel	A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Formulaic Language and Meta-Discourse in Linguistics Research Articles by Natives and Arabs: Modeling Saudis and Egyptians
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 11 (2020) 3, S.193-211 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Abdulaal, Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Contrastive Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Benchmarking; Discourse Analysis; Researchers; Documentation; Research Reports; Native Language; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Classification; Writing (Composition); Language Usage; Language Variation; Authors; Foreign Countries; Phrase Structure; Egypt; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Computerlinguistik; Diskursanalyse; Researcher; Forscher; Dokumentation; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Schreibübung; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachenvielfalt; Author; Autor; Autorin; Ausland; Phrasenstruktur; Ägypten; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	This corpus-based study aims to identify the interactional and interactive metadiscourse markers in terms of frequency in the abstract and discussion sections of research articles on linguistics, written in English by native, Egyptian, and Saudi researchers. To attain this aim, 60 research articles have been randomly compiled and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively via AntConc.3.2.4 depending on Hyland's (2005) classification of metadiscourse markers (MM). Taking the abstracts and discussions written by the natives as a benchmark, this study poses the following essential question: How close and far is the amount of the interactional and interactive resources in Egyptian and Saudi abstracts and discussions to and from the native level? The results showed that except for hedges, evidential markers, and endophorics, the usage of attitudes, code glosses, engagement markers, self-mentions and transitions in the E-abstracts (i.e. written by Egyptian researchers) was much far from the native level. But in S-abstracts (i.e. abstracts written by Saudi researchers), only two close points to the native level have been recorded: transitions and engagements. In the E-discussion sections, unlike code glosses and frame markers, attitudes, boosters, endophorics, hedges, and self-mentions were reported very close to the N-level. In the S-discussion sections, boosters, code glosses, emphatic, engagement, frame markers, and transitions have recorded far rates from the N-level; whereas only attitudes and hedges were much close to the native normal level. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01