Search for dissertations about: "METADISCOURSE"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word METADISCOURSE.

2. 1. Accountability and the making of knowledge statements : a study of academic discourse

   Author : Hans Malmström; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; academic discourse; metapragmatics; verbs; social knowledge; higher-level metadiscourse; knowledge statement; metadiscourse; accountability; discourse voice; communication; citation; backgrounding; foregrounding;

   Abstract : This study investigates the manifestation of speaker accountability in connection with knowledge statements in two different kinds of academic discourse. The study focuses on knowledge statements which feature a set of knowledge stating verbs, namely argue, claim, suggest, propose, maintain, assume and believe. READ MORE

4. 2. The Use of Metadiscourse in Argumentative Texts by Advanced Learners and Native Speakers of English

   Author : Annelie Ädel; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; metadiscourse; English language; Engelska språket;

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5. 3. Getting it Together: A Genre Analysis of the Rhetorical Structure of Open University Television Programmes in Science and Technology

   Author : Rowena Jansson; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; distance learning.; television teaching; metadiscourse; transition; episode; rhetorical structure; Genre analysis; discourse analysis; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with uncovering the organisational structure underpinning Open University television programmes in scientific and technological fields. Using a genre analysis which takes into account the unique contextual configuration in which vision and pedagogical purpose play a vital part a rhetorical structure is revealed. READ MORE

6. 4. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

   Author : Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

   Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE

7. 5. The Epistemology of Rhetoric : Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth

   Author : Erik Bengtson; Mats Rosengren; Otto Fischer; Jon Viklund; Ekaterina V. Haskins; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; doxa; epistemology; post-truth rhetoric; Plato; Aristotle; Roland Barthes; Robert Hariman; Ruth Amossy; Mats Rosengren; rhetorical anthropology; rhetorical ontology; argumentation theory; autonomy; Rhetoric; Retorik;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to develop an epistemology of rhetoric in light of the apparent contemporary post-truth condition of society. Epistemology is hereby understood as concerned with principles for knowledge production within the academic discipline of rhetoric, as well as with an understanding of knowledge production in the public realm. READ MORE