Abstract
Interactional metadiscourse markers are the self-reflective linguistic expressions that make the writers more powerful in interaction (Hyland, 2004). This study applies Hyland’s (2005a) model of interaction on journalistic writings of Urdu. A corpus of Urdu newspapers has been compiled for this study. Antconc 3.2.4w (2011) has been used forgetting the frequency of interactional devices. The compiled corpus is analyzed to draw the results by using Hyland’s (2005a) model of interaction as a theoretical grounding. The results show that hedges are the interaction markers with thehighest frequency in Urdu newspaper writings. The frequent use of hedges suggests that the writers offer their readers some space to negotiate with the viewpoint which highly attracts the readers towards the author’s ideas. The results also exhibit that the news writers of Urdu prefer to manipulate the viewpoint of their readers by their judgments when they use stance markers.

Haroon Shafique, Muhammad Shahbaz, Dr. Behzad Anwar. (2019) An Analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Urdu Journalistic Writings, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 4, Issue 1.
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