Metadiscourse analysis of digital interpersonal interactions in academic settings in Turkey

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Hatipoğlu, Çiler

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Rapid technological advances, efficiency and easy access have firmly established emailing as a vital medium of communication in the last decades. Nowadays, all around the world, particularly in educational settings, the medium is one of the most widely used modes of interaction between students and university lecturers. Despite their important role in academic life, very little is known about the metadiscursive characteristics of these e-messages and as far as the author is aware there is no study that has examined metadiscourse in request emails in Turkish. This study aims to contribute to filling in this gap by focusing on the following two research questions: (i) How many and what type of interpersonal metadiscourse markers are used in request emails sent by students to their lecturers? (ii) Where are they placed and how are they combined with other elements in the text? In order to answer these questions a corpus of unsolicited request e-mails in Turkish was compiled. The data collection started in January 2010 and continued until March 2018. A total of 353 request emails sent from university students to their lecturers were collected. The data were first transcribed in CLAN CHILDES format and analysed using the interpersonal model. The metadiscourse categories that aimed to involve readers in the email were identified and classified. Next, their places in the text were determined and described in detail. Findings of the study show that request emails include a wide array of multifunctional interpersonal metadiscourse markers which are intricately combined and employed by the writers to reach their aims. The results also showed that there is a close relation between the “weight of the request” and number of the interpersonal metadiscourse markers in request mails.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87039
https://open.metu.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11511/87039/index.pdf

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MAG 2019 :Metadiscourse in Digital Communication What has changed?

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Ç. Hatipoğlu, “Metadiscourse analysis of digital interpersonal interactions in academic settings in Turkey,” presented at the MAG 2019 :Metadiscourse in Digital Communication What has changed?, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/87039.