Metadiscourse: the evolution of an approach to texts

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0156
Ken Hyland, F. Jiang
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Abstract Metadiscourse is the commentary on a text made by its producer in the course of speaking or writing, revealing something of how communication involves the personalities, attitudes and assumptions of those who are communicating. It offers a framework for understanding communication as social engagement and helps reveal how writers and speakers consider their audience in creating texts. This paper uses a bibliometric analysis to trace the growing interest in metadiscourse since its early incarnations in the 1980s. To do so we analysed all 431 papers relating to metadiscourse in the core collection of the Web of Science between 1983 and 2020, dividing the corpus into two periods following the massive increase in interest after 2006. We identify which topics have been most prevalent, which authors and publications most influential and which disciplines and journals most active in citing the metadiscourse literature. The findings show the importance of academic and business writing, cross-disciplinary, language and genre studies, and the increasing predominance of an interpersonal model. These findings may be of interest to those working in discourse analysis and the study of social interaction.
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元话语:一种文本方法的演变
摘要元话语是生产者在说话或写作过程中对文本的评论,揭示了交流如何涉及交流者的个性、态度和假设。它提供了一个将沟通理解为社会参与的框架,并有助于揭示作家和演讲者在创作文本时如何考虑受众。本文采用文献计量学分析的方法来追踪元话语自20世纪80年代早期出现以来日益增长的兴趣。为此,我们分析了1983年至2020年间科学网核心收藏中所有431篇与元话语有关的论文,将语料库分为两个时期,2006年之后人们的兴趣大幅增加。我们确定了哪些主题最流行,哪些作者和出版物最具影响力,哪些学科和期刊在引用元话语文学方面最活跃。研究结果表明了学术和商业写作、跨学科、语言和体裁研究的重要性,以及人际关系模式日益占主导地位。这些发现可能会引起那些从事话语分析和社会互动研究的人的兴趣。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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