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1、JournalofEnglishforAcademicPurposes11(2012)345–356ContentslistsavailableatSciVerseScienceDirectJournalofEnglishforAcademicPurposesjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/jeapMetadiscourserepertoireofL1MandarinundergraduateswritinginEnglish:Across-contextual,cross-disciplinarystudya,1b,*TingLi,
2、SueWhartonaEnglishLanguageCentre,Xi’anJiaotong-LiverpoolUniversity,No.111Ren’aiRoad,SuzhouDushuLakeHigherEducationTown,SuzhouIndustrialPark,JiangsuProvince215123,ChinabCentreforAppliedLinguistics,UniversityofWarwick,GibbetHillRd,CoventryCV47AL,UKabstractKeywords:Thisarticlepresentsaqualitative
3、,comparativestudyofmetadiscourseintheacademicMetadiscoursewritingoftwogroupsofundergraduatestudentsworkingintwodifferentdisciplines.TheChineselearnersgroupsofstudentswere:1)NativespeakersofMandarinstudyinginChinathroughtheAcademicwritingmediumofEnglish;2)NativespeakersofMandarinstudyingintheUK
4、throughtheCorpusbasedmediumofEnglish.Foreachgroupofstudents,weexaminedwritingundertakenintwoEAPundergraduatedisciplinarycourses:LiteraryCriticismandTranslationStudies.OuraimwastoextendresearchintoEnglishwritingbyL1Mandarinspeakers,andtoidentifypatternsofdifferenceandsimilaritybothbetweeneducat
5、ionalcontextsandbetweendisciplines.Resultssuggestthatpatternsofmetadiscourseuseinourcorpusareassociatedwithbothdisciplinaryandcontextualfactors,butthatcontextualfactorsmayhaveastrongereffectthandisciplinaryfactors.Forourdata,localinstitutionalcultureseemstohaveanoticeableinfluenceonstudentwrite
6、rs’useofmetadiscourse.Ó2012ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.1.IntroductionOurstudyexamineswritingintwodisciplines,LiteraryCriticismandTranslationStudies.Theclaimthatwritingindifferentdisciplinesvariessystematicallyalongarangeofmacroandmicrodimensionsoftextiswellestablished;Hyland(2000)andSilver(2
7、006)arebooklengthtreatmentsoftheissue.BecherandTrowler(2001)arguethat“itis.throughthemediumoflanguagethatsomeofthemorefundamentaldistinctions[betweendisciplines]emerge”(p.46).Hyland(2009,p.7)arguesthat“Overwhelmingly.itisdisciplinaryvar
