17.3054, Books: Discourse Analysis: Ädel

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Date: 17-Oct-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English: Ädel 

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:00:02
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English: Ädel 

Title: Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 24  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2024 

Author: Annelie Ädel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Hardback: ISBN: 9027222975 Pages: 243 Price: U.S. $ 132.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222975 Pages: 243 Price: Europe EURO 110.00

Abstract:

The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse - commentary on the ongoing
discourse - is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics
of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the
theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena,
and our knowledge of metadiscourse use in written English. After
comprehensively reviewing previous research, it introduces a more rigorous
and empirical approach to metadiscourse studies. Ädel presents a new model
of metadiscourse based on Jakobson's functions of language, and other
conceptual tools, including explicit features for defining metadiscourse, a
taxonomy of the functions it serves, and maps of the boundaries between it
and related phenomena. A large-scale study of writing by L1 and L2
university students is presented, in which the L2 speakers' overuse of
metadiscourse strongly marks them as lacking in communicative competence.
This work is of interest both to linguists and to educators concerned with
writing in English. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix-x  
Introduction  1-12  
A model of metadiscourse  13-45  
Personal metadiscourse  47-95  
Impersonal metadiscourse  97-123  
The textual distribution of metadiscourse  125-139  
Possible causes of variation in metadiscourse use  141-155  
Theories of metadiscourse  157-180  
Conclusions  181-200  
Appendices  201-219  
Notes  221-229  
References  231-237  
Author index  239-240  
Subject index  241-243  

"This book is a significant contribution to the rapidly developing field of
learner-corpus research. It yields new insight into an important aspect of
learner language and at the same time contributes more generally to the
corpus-based study of metadiscourse.""
Stig Johansson, University of Oslo 

"Annelie Ädel has written a scholarly theoretically rigorous account of
metadiscourse use based on new perspective and insight. For these reasons
and because she applies new computer-assisted methods, her book will surely
be seen as a pioneering work with positive impacts on current and future
metadiscourse researchers and users. Ädel's style is clear and accessible,
and she offers readers something valuable and interesting. Those interested
in L1 and L2 English learner research in reading, writing, speaking, and
text structure will find this study of metadiscourse strategies compelling."
Avon Crismore (author of Talking with Readers: Metadiscourse as Rhetorical Act) 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Written In: English  (eng)

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