The present paper starts out by assuming that, despite a relative uniformity of research
articles (RAs) imposed by the requirements of the genre, there will be significant intercultural …

The present study assumes that, despite the relative uniformity of research articles (RAs)
imposed by the requirements of the genre, there may be intercultural variation in the …

This study explores the role of interpersonal and textual metadiscourse in the construction of
persuasive texts written by English-and Spanish-speaking writers. The study seeks to …

In the last few decades the interpersonal nature of academic communication has been
stressed in English for Academic Purposes literature. Taking metadiscourse as the analytical …

1.1 Background The aim of this study is to compare/contrast history textbooks written in two
languages using the notions of Theme and Rheme. Many comparative studies in English …

This corpus-driven study focuses on reflexive metadiscourse, taking the non-integrative
approach to the study of this phenomenon (Mauranen, 1993a, Ädel, 2006, Toumi, 2009) …

Many recent task-based textbooks on academic writing include at least one unit which aims
at teaching how to write a cause-and/or-effect analytical essay. Most of these units introduce …

While news reports and editorials may center on very similar experiential content, obviously,
their purposes are very different: to inform in the case of the report, and to argue for a …

Academic writers leave traces of themselves in their writing which may be linked to national
as well as disciplinary culture. This paper takes a doubly contrastive approach and …

The study of metadiscursive practices is particularly fruitful in introductory part-genres where
the representation of disciplinary discursive procedures plays a major role for the discourse …