Identification of metadiscourse markers in bachelor’s degree theses in Spanish: Introduction of a text mining tool

This article introduces a text mining tool that can automatically extract information using Hyland’s analysis model as a theoretical framework to analyse the use and characteristics of metadiscourse in large quantities of academic texts. To verify its validity, we present the results obtained using...

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Published in:Revista española de lingüística aplicada 2023-05, Vol.36 (1), p.329-351
Main Authors: Míguez-Álvarez, Carla, Varela, Luis G., Cuevas-Alonso, Miguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
análisis de corpus
bachelor thesis
corpus analysis
interactional markers
interactive markers
marcadores del metadiscurso
marcadores interaccionales
marcadores interactivos
metadiscourse
metadiscourse markers
metadiscurso
minería de textos
programa de software
software program
text mining
trabajo fin de grado
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Summary:This article introduces a text mining tool that can automatically extract information using Hyland’s analysis model as a theoretical framework to analyse the use and characteristics of metadiscourse in large quantities of academic texts. To verify its validity, we present the results obtained using this tool on various bachelor’s degree theses with a particular focus on the field of engineering. Our results on a 6.9 million-word corpus extracted from 680 bachelor’s theses available online show that interactive metadiscourse markers are prevalent in engineering bachelor’s theses as well as in the authors’ metadiscourse patterns. In addition, we compared our results with previous research on metadiscourse markers. Our study can be used to identify the usage of various types of metadiscourse markers during the production of texts and for the development of software applications involving quantitative linguistic methods for the production of academic texts.
ISSN:0213-2028
2254-6774
DOI:10.1075/resla.20055.mig