Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface xviii
xix
Section 1： What is metadiscourse? 1
Chapter 1 First impressions 3
1．1 A brief overview of metadiscourse 3
1．2 A context of emergence： information and
interaction 6
1．3 Metadiscourse and audience awareness 9
1．4 Metadiscourse， interaction and audience 11
1．5 Summary and conclusion 14
Chapter 2 Definitions， issues and classifications 16
2．1 Definitions of metadiscourse 16
2．2 Propositional and metadiscourse meanings 18
2．3 'Levels of meaning' 21
2．4 Functional analyses 24
2．5 'Textual' and 'interpersonal' functions 26
2．6 Metadiscourse signals 27
2．7 Categorizations of metadiscourse 32
2．8 Summary and conclusions 35
Chapter 3 A metadiscourse model 37
3．1 Key principles of metadiscourse 37
3．2 A classification of metadiscourse 48
3．3 Metadiscourse resources 50
3．4 An illustration： metadiscourse in postgraduate
writing 54
3．5 The limits of description 58
3．6 Summary and conclusions 59
Section 2： Metadiscourse in practice 61
Chapter 4 Metadiscourse and rhetoric 63
4．1 The concept of rhetoric 63
4．2 Academic discourse and rhetoric 65
4．3 Metadiscourse， ethos and
The Origin of Species 67
4．4 Business discourse and metadiscourse 71
4．5 Metadiscourse and rhetoric in company
annual reports 73
4．6 Summary and conclusions 85
Chapter 5 Metadiscourse and genre 87
5．1 The concept of genre 87
5．2 Metadiscourse and genre 88
5．3 Metadiscourse in academic research
articles 89
5．4 Metadiscourse in popular science articles 93
5．5 Metadiscourse in introductory textbooks 101
5．6 Summary and conclusions 111
Chapter 6 Metadiscourse and culture 113
6．1 Culture and language 113
6．2 Metadiscourse across languages 116
6．3 Metadiscourse and writing in English 124
6．4 Interactive metadiscourse in English 124
6．5 Interactional me
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