World of Attitudes in Research Article Discussion Sections: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

This study aimed to account for metadiscourse variations in the discussion sections of articles written inpersian and english and published in iranian as well as international scholarly journals in english languageteaching and psychiatry. for this purpose, 90 research article discussions were selected, and then hedges andboosters were identified based on the taxonomies of metadiscourse markers. the results of the quantitative andqualitative analyses revealed significant ditterences in frequency, type, and functions of these devices in the texts.these ditterences migbt be attributed to lack of awareness of the conventional rules of english rhetoric, limited andfragile knowledge of academic english by persian writers, and lack of explicit instruction and exposure to pragmaticand sociolinguistic rules of english by persian researchers. further research in other disciplines will help to makemore accurate generali7ations about the role of metadiscourse markers in research articles