Ken Hyland|Feng Jiang
“In this paper we suggest”: Changing patterns of disciplinary metadiscourse
Jilin University|University of East Anglia|Norwich Research Park|Jilin University|University of East Anglia|Norwich Research Park
metadiscourse commentary text made producer course speaking writing take interpersonal perspective focusing metadiscourse repertoire resources available writers organise discourse stance towards content reader paper explore whether extent metadiscourse changed professional writing different disciplines past 50 years extending diachronic work analysing corpus 22 million words articles top journals four disciplines show significant increase interactive features significant decrease interactional types surprisingly interactional metadiscourse shows marked decline discursive soft knowledge fields substantial increase science subjects