导语

  

内容提要

  

    元话语作为一种重要的话语现象，在话语研究中得到许多学者的关注。本书清晰地界定了元话语的概念，并以崭新视角审视了语篇生产者和语篇之间、语篇生产者和受众之间的关系，指出元话语对我们理解交际、研究学术写作的重要性，系统阐述了元话语与修辞、语类、文化和话语社区的关系，指出元话语概念对于写作教学的意义。书中叙述的元话语概念以及元话语方面的研究对语篇分析很有参考价值，对于教师和学生认识和了解元话语也有很大帮助。

Acknowledgements
Preface
Section 1:  What is metadiscourse?
  Chapter 1  First impressions
    1.1  A brief overview of metadiscourse
    1.2  A context of emergence: information and interaction
    1.3  Metadiscourse and audience awareness
    1.4  Metadiscourse, interaction and audience
    1.5  Summary and conclusion
  Chapter 2  Definitions, issues and classifications
    2.1  Definitions of metadiscourse
    2.2  Propositional and metadiscourse meanings
    2.3  Levels of meaning'
    2.4  Functional analyses
    2.5  'Textual' and 'interpersonal' functions
    2.6  Metadiscourse signals
    2.7  Categorizations of metadiscourse
    2.8  Summary and conclusions
  Chapter 3  A metadiscourse model
    3.1  Key principles of metadiscourse
    3.2  A classification of metadiscourse
    3.3  Metadiscourse resources
    3.4  An illustration: metadiscourse in postgraduate writing
    3.5  The limits of description
    3.6  Summary and conclusions
Section 2:  Metadiscourse in practice
  Chapter 4  Metadiscourse and rhetoric
    4.1  The concept of rhetoric
    4.2  Academic discourse and rhetoric
    4.3  Metadiscourse, ethos and The Origin of Species
    4.4  Business discourse and metadiscourse
    4.5  Metadiscourse and rhetoric in company annual reports
    4.6  Summary and conclusions
  Chapter 5  Metadiscourse and genre
    5.1  The concept of genre
    5.2  Metadiscourse and genre
    5.3  Metadiscourse in academic research articles
    5.4  Metadiscourse in popular science articles
    5.5  Metadiscourse in introductory textbooks
    5.6  Summary and conclusions
  Chapter 6  Metadiscourse and culture
    6.1  Culture and language
    6.2  Metadiscourse across languages
    6.3  Metadiscourse and writing in English
    6.4  Interactive metadiscourse in English
    6.5  Interactional metadiscourse in English
    6.6  Summary and conclusions
  Chapter 7  Metadiscourse and community
    7.1  The concept of community
    7.2  Community, academic writing and metadiscourse
    7.3  Metadiscourse variation in articles across disciplines
    7.4  Interactional metadiscourse in articles across disciplines
    7.5  Interactive metadiscourse in articles across disciplines
    7.6  Metadiscourse variation in textbooks across disciplines
    7.7  Interactional metadiscourse in textbooks across disciplines
    7.8  Interactive metadiscourse in textbooks across disciplines
    7.9  Summary and conclusions
Section 3:  Issues and implications
  Chapter 8  Metadiscourse in the classroom
    8.1  Students, writing and audience awareness
    8.2  Advantages of teaching metadiscourse features
    8.3  Some teaching principles
    8.4  Some teaching strategies
    8.5  Summary and conclusions
  Chapter 9  Issues and directions
    9.1  Metadiscourse and the socially situated writer
    9.2  Metadiscourse and interpersonal engagement
    9.3  Metadiscourse and discourse variation
    9.4  Metadiscourse and classroom practice
    9.5  Methodological issues
    9.6  Some implications and remaining issues
    9.7  Further research
References
Appendix: Metadiscourse items investigated
Subject Index
Author Index