RT Journal Article
T1 Identification of metadiscourse markers in bachelor’s degree theses in Spanish: Introduction of a text mining tool
T2 Identificación de marcadores de metadiscurso en trabajos de fin de grado en español: Introducción de una herramienta de minería de textos
A1 Míguez Álvarez, Carla María
A1 Gonzalez Varela, Luís
A1 Cuevas Alonso, Miguel
K1 57 Lingüística
K1 5701.02 Documentación Automatizada
K1 5701.04 Lingüística Informatizada
AB This article introduces a text mining tool that can automatically extract information using Hyland’s analysis model as a theoretical framework to analyse the use and characteristics of metadiscourse in large quantities of academic texts. To verify its validity, we present the results obtained using this tool on various bachelor’s degree theses with a particular focus on the field of engineering. Our results on a 6.9 million-word corpus extracted from 680 bachelor’s theses available online show that interactive metadiscourse markers are prevalent in engineering bachelor’s theses as well as in the authors’ metadiscourse patterns. In addition, we compared our results with previous research on metadiscourse markers. Our study can be used to identify the usage of various types of metadiscourse markers during the production of texts and for the development of software applications involving quantitative linguistic methods for the production of academic texts.
PB Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
SN 02132028
YR 2023
FD 2023-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/6102
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/6102
LA eng
NO Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 36(1): 329-351 (2023)
NO Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431C 2017/50
DS Investigo
RD 18-sep-2024