Paradigmatic Influences on Metadiscourse Features in Medical Research Articles (Research Paper)

For the recent decades, scholars have examined the use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs) paradigmatically through several comparative studies across varying languages and cultures. No study to date, however, has investigated a comprehensive, full-fledged comparison of the possible disparities among the native English writers (NEW), Iranian English writers (IEW), and Iranian Persian writers (IPW) in crafting disciplinary research articles (RAs) in the academic field of medicine. By drawing on Hyland's (۲۰۰۵) metadiscourse taxonomy, the present research thus embarked on this comparison through the random selection of ۲۴۰ medical research articles (RAs), ۱۲۰ quantitative and ۱۲۰ qualitative ones. The results could espouse the perspective that medical RA genre is less impacted by the inevitable language differences thereby giving rise to the greater importance of consensually-acknowledged disciplinary epistemology underlying medical sciences. It is then suggested that ESP classes as well as the article writing workshops held in L۲ make every effort to include the interactional phase of the discourse as well.

کلیدواژه ها:

Metadiscourse ، Medical RAs ، Interactive ، Interactional ، Post-method section