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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