Book Description

"This book combines a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to metadiscourse and offers new conceptual tools and frameworks for analysing written, spoken and multimodal discourse. The studies included in the volume offer new perspectives on the role of metadiscourse in building and maintaining interaction between individuals and within different communities. Importantly, the studies are not restricted to academic and professional domains, as several authors explore new research avenues, such as communication on social media platforms." -Maria Kuteeva, Professor of English Linguistics, Stockholm University In this book, a solid and emerging group of international researchers contributes to the theory of metadiscourse and to our understanding of the role metadiscourse and related 'meta' phenomena may play in digital forms of communication. Providing examples of new research methods and approaches, the authors investigate progressively hybridized academic and non-academic genres that have migrated from analogue to digital format. The book offers valuable insights on how digital communication has changed today's communication environments and provides examples of research methods needed to capture that change. This volume will be appreciated by scholars and graduate students interested in linguistics, corpus linguistics and metadiscourse. Larissa D'Angelo is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She is an active member of CERLIS (Research Centre on Specialized Languages) and her main research interests deal with biometric analyses, multimodality, audiovisual translation, corpus linguistics and metadiscourse. Anna Mauranen is Professor and Research Director at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research and publications include those on ELF, academic discourses, corpus linguistics, translation studies, and theoretical modelling of speech. She is co-editor of Applied Linguistics and formerly founding co-editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca. Stefania Maci is Full Professor of English Language, pro Vice-Chancellor of Education, Director of CERLIS at the University of Bergamo and serves on the Board of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica). Her research is focused on the study of the English language in academic and professional contexts, with particular regard to the analysis of tourism and medical discourses.