TY - JOUR ID - 13520 TI - Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Newspaper Editorials JO - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances JA - JALDA LA - en SN - 2820-8986 AU - Salahshoor, Farzad AU - Najjari Asl, Zahra AU - Tofigh, Marzieh AD - Department of English Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University,Tabriz, Iran AD - Islamic Azad University- Maragheh Branch, Maragheh, Iran AD - Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch, Maragheh, Iran Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 91 EP - 109 KW - Metadiscourse KW - newspaper editorial genre KW - stance KW - engagement DO - 10.22049/jalda.2014.13520 N2 - The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backgrounds to fulfill persuasive objectives in the genre of newspaper editorials. Based on Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal taxonomy, a total of eighty newspaper editorials from four elite newspapers (two Iranian and two American) were analyzed and compared. The results revealed some differences between the two groups of editors (Iranian group and American group) in terms of the number of metadiscoursal elements used in their editorials. For instance, the native speaker group proved to be more confident in using interactional and interpersonal metadiscourse markers more frequently than the non-native group, which can be attributed to genre and language ownership on the part of the native speaker group. It can also be related to the contrast often made between writer-responsibility vs. reader- responsibility cultures (Hinds 1987). On the whole, cultural upbringing, genre and language ownership, as well as different rhetorical considerations may play key roles in the type and frequency of metadiscoursal elements used in public domain discourses. UR - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13520.html L1 - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_13520_f5ddd1c44feffaa9a736018ee3c20764.pdf ER -