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Publication details [#59089]

Bu, Jiemin. 2014. Towards a pragmatic analysis of metadiscourse in academic lectures: From relevance to adaptation. Discourse Studies 16 (4) : 449–472.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | adaptation | metalanguage | pragmatics | relevance

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Relevance and adaptation theory-based, the relevance-adaptation model is set up to examine presence, pragmatic account and role of metadiscourse in academic lectures, as here in Lakoff’s academic lectures on cognitive linguistics at Beijing University in 2004.