Introduction to the monographic section: Metadiscourse devices in academic discourse

Abstract

This monograph brings together a collection of studies within the field of corpus linguistics and metadiscourse devices. Each of these articles offers distinct but sometimes shared perspectives on exploring metadiscourse devices in particular textual compilations representative of several academic knowledge domains, e.g. engineering, history, linguistics, medicine and tourism. A description of these corpora is conveniently provided in each of the articles, along with a presentation of the software deployed for corpus management and interrogation.