We study metadiscourse in research articles by merging pragmatically motivated move analysis and linguistically motivated concept-matching analysis. We show that the two approaches are mutually informative, and that functional metalanguage can be characterized and automatically detected using an underlying common representation of moves that involves syntactic relationships among instantiated concepts.
This paper addresses a question central to this symposium: How can metalanguage be used as a lens for revealing how interlocutors orient their audience in certain communicative contexts? Targeting the subtheme of metalanguage in asynchronous discourse, we focus on a corpus representative of the research article genre to examine how disciplinary discourse communities use function[quotrightB?]
