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A Review of Interactional Metadiscourse Research in Postgraduate Dissertations and Theses across Disciplines

Rok vydání: 2022

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0310-2022-3

Abstrakt

This review paper summarises research on the use of interactional metadiscourse in dissertations/theses by master’s and PhD students. A keyword search in the Scopus database identified ten relevant research articles with corpus-based studies from eight countries. The paper concludes that the topic of metadiscourse remains underresearched in these genres, particularly in European contexts.

Klíčová slova

interactional metadiscourse, academic writing, postgraduate, dissertation, thesis


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