خلاصة:
Since the early development of interest in the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication in the 1980s, the analytic potentials of the concept of metadiscourse have motivated a large number of investigations. Although these analytic potentials have facilitated the study of diverse academic genres, there has always been a risk of detachment of textual analyses form the contextual origins and motivations. In some cases, this detachment has been so observable that the true discoursal nature of the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication has been reduced to classifications of a large number of pure textual properties. As a reaction to this reductionist trend, the present article provides a preliminary framework within which the contextual origins of metadiscourse features can be understood. It is suggested that if the findings of metadiscourse research are meant to be interpreted in meaningful ways, they should be contextualized within such process-oriented frameworks
ملخص الجهاز:
"While Crismore and Farnsworth's (1989) research on Darwin's use of metadiscoursal features in The Origin of Species (discussed above) can be considered as an excellent example of this way of contextualizing metadiscourse research, we can review some of the most influential studies of this type here in more details: Hyland's (2008a) investigation identifies self-mention, hedging and attitude markers, reader engagement and considerateness as the main characteristics of John Swales' rhetoric and concludes with the view that this is a disciplinary voice informed by a keen assessment of his readers and representing an independent creativity shaped by accountability to shared practices.
Hence, one further interpretive option available for the researchers active in metadiscourse analysis would be investigating the chronological variations of these features seen in academic genres and highlighting how these variations are interwoven with the changing social practices of specific discourse communities.
4 Metadiscourse in other academic genres Research academic genre metadiscourse feature investigated Hyland (1994) EAP writing textbook hedging devices Hyland (2000) Myers (2001) scientific letter undergraduate essay boosters and hedges personal views Hewings and Hewings (2001) student essay metadiscoursal functions of it-clauses Hyland (2002b) undergraduate essay author pronoun Latawiec (2012) oral discussions and persuasive essays evaluative, organizing and intersubjective features Gholami et al (2014) EFL learners' argumentative essays misuse of textual and interpersonal features Dobbs (2014) middle grade persuasive writing organization and stance signals Although the literature abounds with samples of genre-based investigations which concentrate on single genres, we can also find good examples of comparative studies."