The pragmatic role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in the construction and attainment of persuasion: A cross-linguistic study of newspaper discourse

This paper seeks to explore the role that metadiscourse markers play in the construction and attainment of persuasion. In a cross-linguistic perspective, two elite newspapers, the British The Times and the Spanish El País have been chosen, both because of their status and because of the political an...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 2008, Vol.40 (1), p.95-113
Main Author: Dafouz-Milne, Emma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British English
Contrastive rhetoric
Corpus linguistics
Discourse Markers
Discourse semiotics
Discourse Strategies
Journalistic Language
Linguistics
Metadiscourse markers
Newspaper discourse
Persuasion
Rhetoric and argumentation
Spanish
Text Analysis
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