A new approach to children's education quarterly

A new approach to children's education quarterly

Metadiscourse Markers Analysis and Comparison in Novels and Short Story Collections for Children and Young Adults by Houshang Moradi Kermani Based on Hyland (2005)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Sanaz Deghat 1
Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh 2
Leila Saberi 3
Zahra Rastegar Haghighi Shirazi 3
1 Ph.D. student of General Linguistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Maroodasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maroodasht, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
10.22034/naes.2025.491973.1610
Abstract
Metadiscourse signs are tools used to organize language without adding anything to the main content of the text. In the theoretical framework of Hyland (2005), a model is presented for analyzing the interaction between the author of the text and its audience, as well as the coherence of the text. In this research, based on Hyland's theoretical model, the signs of interactive and exchange metadiscourse in the novels and collection of stories written by Hoshang Moradi Kermani, one of the famous authors in the field of children's and adolescent literature, have been examined and compared. For this purpose, the AntConc software was used to extract and identify the types of metadiscourse markers employed in Moradi Kermani's short story collections and novels, which comprise 221,387 words, and then compare them. Finally, the findings showed that the number of interactive metadiscourse markers was higher than the interactional ones in the corpus under study. This means that interaction with the audience is more important than guiding them in the literary genre. Also, considering the identical writing style of the author under study in the short story collections and novels, the data analysis using the Wilcoxon statistical test did not show a significant difference in the frequency of metadiscourse markers between the short story collections and novels.
Keywords
Children's and adolescent literature
Hyland's model
interactive metadiscourse
interactional metadiscourse
Houshang Moradi Kermani

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A new approach to children's education quarterly
Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
Summer 2025
Pages 129-142

  • Receive Date 03 December 2024
  • Revise Date 06 January 2025
  • Accept Date 07 January 2025
  • First Publish Date 18 April 2025
  • Publish Date 23 August 2025