A pragmatic Analysis of Personal Metadiscourse and Politeness Principle across Genres: From Relevance to Adaptation

This study investigated personal metadiscourse units across genres. Based on Ädel’s (2006) taxonomy of the discourse functions of personal metadiscourse and Leech’s (2014) grand strategy of politeness, three spoken genres were compared in terms of the use of personal metadiscourse functions and poli...

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Main Authors: Omid Allaf-Akbary, Rajab Esfandiari, Abbas Zarei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tabriz 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_10674_f33b888840d45778499b8d8f209c7493.pdf