Cordially,
Francisco Yus
Title: Metadiscourse in Academic Speech. A relevance-theoretic approach.
Author: Marta Aguilar
Published: 2008
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 978-3-03911-509-9
Pages: 288.
Description:
Even though metadiscourse has recently received considerable attention,
most research revolves around written, not spoken, metadiscourse. This
book studies spoken metadiscourse in two academic genres in the
engineering field, the lecture and the peer seminar. It examines what
motivates metadiscourse and how engineering academics resort to
different types of metadiscourse when they address different audiences.
Based on relevance theory, this study provides a socio-cognitive
framework within which metadiscourse is analysed. The author draws on
relevance theory's generic concept of cognitive environment and uses it
to describe the academic context in particular. This theoretical
perspective provides novel insights into motivations, abilities and
preferences of engineering academics when using metadiscourse in the two
genres under study.
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