Author(s)

Yun Liu ¹, Jing Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of International Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Jing Chen

ABSTRACT

Metadiscourse is a kind of linguistic resource used to convey stance, guiding readers to interact with the text and realize its persuasive function. The present study has collected 240 RA abstracts in the field of musicology, with 120 from Chinese-medium journals and 120 from English-medium journals, aiming to discover the similarities and differences between the two cultural groups. The research results yield the following findings: 1) The English sub-corpus displays significantly more use of metadiscourse markers, both in the interactive and interactional dimensions. 2) English-medium authors use more interactional metadiscourse than interactive ones, while the Chinese-medium authors are the other way around. This study has pedagogical implications for the teaching and learning of academic writing of musicology in China.

KEYWORDS

Metadiscourse; musicology; English-Chinese comparative study; Abstracts

CITE THIS PAPER

Yun Liu, Jing Chen, Metadiscourse in the Abstracts of Research Articles in Musicology: An English-Chinese Comparative Study. Transactions on Comparative Education (2023) Vol. 5: 50-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2023.050809.

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