Open AccessA Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Code Glosses Used in English Academic Articles Written by Authors of Politics and Applied Linguistics
Author(s) -
Ibrahim Safari
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-5425
DOI - 10.5296/ijl.v10i2.12242
Subject(s) - metadiscourse , applied linguistics , linguistics , genre analysis , corpus linguistics , politics , pragmatics , computer science , field (mathematics) , code (set theory) , text linguistics , code switching , clinical linguistics , contrastive linguistics , quantitative linguistics , systemic functional linguistics , section (typography) , sociology , political science , philosophy , mathematics , programming language , set (abstract data type) , pure mathematics , law , operating system
In the field of academic writing, it is important to create a structurally and communicatively well-organized and coherent text. Metadiscourse is the way in which writers interact through their use of language in the form of writing with readers– is a widely used term in the field of pragmatics and language teaching. This research article aims to investigate using code glosses as a sub-category of metadiscourse in the introduction section of two different disciplines, politics and applied linguistics. The corpus consists of twenty research articles from the politics and twenty from applied linguistics. The model suggested by Hyland (2005) is used for analizing the selected corpus. These articles were investigated and the number of code-glosses in each group was counted and analyzed. The result of data analysis revealed that there is significant difference between the frequency count of using code glosses used by applied linguistics and politics authors. Politics authors used more code glosses in comparison with applied linguistics and both applied linguistics and politics writers used reformulations more than exemplifications. This study can have pedagogical implications for EAP course designers as well as academic writing instructors and students.