Cross-cultural analysis of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in persuasive local newspaper articles
Cross-cultural analysis of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in persuasive local newspaper articles
Author(s): Maryam Farnia, Nahid MohammadiSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: cross-cultural study; interpersonal metadiscourse markers; local newspaper; persuasion
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to explore the role interpersonal metadiscourse markers play in the construction and achievement of persuasion in local British and Iranian newspapers. To this end, a corpus of 120 persuasive opinion articles published in two local Iranian newspapers, namely Isfahan Ziba and Isfahan (Emrooz) Today, and two local British newspapers, namely Liverpool Echo and Chronicle Live, from July 2015 to June 2016, were randomly selected and analyzed based on Dafouz-Milne’s (2008) taxonomy of interpersonal metadiscourse markers. The overal findings disclose that interpersonal metadiscourse is present in the two corpora; however, there are variations in the distribution and frequency of interpersonal markers.
Journal: Discourse and Interaction
- Issue Year: 11/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 27-44
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
