Metadiscourse markers in opinion articles. Comparative analysis

Sabov A. Metadiscourse markers in opinion articles. Comparative analysis : Master Thesis : 035 Philology / Sabov Andriana. - Kyiv, 2021. - 99 с.

Increasingly, the language itself becomes less of an interest for the linguists to investigate. Nowadays, the preponderance of the research in language draws on a variety of disciplines ranging from humanities and social sciences to neurosciences and computer sciences. The study of metadiscourse is concerned primarily with the language itself and the philosophy of language. Metadiscourse is a language that comment on the language used in the text.
The investigation into metadiscourse stems from Halliday’s classification of three metafunctions of the language. Based on this the further work was done by Vande Kopple, Crismore, Mauranen, Ädel, Hyland and others
The object of the research: British, American and Ukrainian opinion articles taken from the most popular publications in each country.
The subject of the research: Metadiscourse markers as defined by Hyland, i.e. interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers and the way they function in opinion articles.