EXPLORING METADISCOURSE IN ALBANIAN DOCTORAL DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS USING HYLAND TAXONOMY
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https://doi.org/10.20535/.2025.15.321800Ключові слова:
metadiscourse, doctoral dissertation abstracts, Hyland taxonomy, corpus analysis, cross disciplinaryАнотація
Metadiscourse elements construct the relationship between the writer and reader. The current research paper is a comparative, corpus-based examination of the usage, types, and distribution of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features in Albanian dissertation abstracts. This study utilized Hyland's theoretical framework. Fifty dissertation articles from the fields of Natural Sciences and Philological Sciences were randomly selected for analysis using the Lancs Box X software. The findings demonstrate that writers employed interactive metadiscourse features more extensively than interactional ones. Within the interactive category, transitions and frame markers were the most prevalent, while for interactional features, hedging and self-mentions were used most frequently by the writers. The results of this research can offer useful insights for contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics, and text analysis.
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