Metadiscourse Devices in E-mail Writing: A Case Study Between a Polish Teacher and a Chinese Student

Tian Huiling

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Metadiscourse Devices in E-mail Writing: A Case Study Between a Polish Teacher and a Chinese Student

Tian Huiling

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 3)

Received: 8 May 2015 Accepted: 15 May 2015 Published: 27 May 2015

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This article aims at reporting on some of the preliminary results of an on-going study on the difference of the use of metadiscourse strategies in e-mail writing between a Polish teacher and a Chinese student. Drawing on Hyland’s (2005) Metadiscourse Theory, the purpose of the analysis is to show how the use of metadiscourse devices varies between an English-speaking person and a non English-speaking person in e-mail writing which covers a time period from 9 December 2013 to 1 January 2014. According to the analysis, we found out that metadisourse devices are frequently used in E-mail writing. Thanks to the different thinking mode and different ideology, people from different countries may use metadisourse devices differently. For example, the Polish Peter used more engagement markers than the Chinese student Tina did. While Tina used more hedges than Peter did. In this whole process, culture plays an important role.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20150303.22
Page(s)	187-192
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Metadiscourse Device, E-Mail Writhing, Case Study

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Department of Linguistics, Three Gorges University, Yichang, China

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