Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news
Metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource in business news because it guides readers throughout the text. Business news is vital to keep people abreast of how the economy affects job opportunities, how high or low interest rates may go, and whether layoffs are imminent in l...
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2022
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| author | Hooy, Chee Mei Tan, Helen Lee, Geok Imm Victor Danarajan, Sharon Sharmini |
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| description | Metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource in business news because it guides readers throughout the text. Business news is vital to keep people abreast of how the economy affects job opportunities, how high or low interest rates may go, and whether layoffs are imminent in local industries. However, it is the news that people read the least because it is not engaging to them. The study aims to investigate The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysiabusiness news writers’ awareness on the use of metadiscourse features. Metadiscourse Awareness Test was given to 10 business news writers from The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysiarespectively. The findings showed that sequencers had the lowest mean score (M=2.334) for textual metadiscourse, while certainty markers hadthe lowest mean score (M=2.667) for interpersonal metadiscourse. Although The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysia writers exhibited the lowest mean score in identifying sequencers and certainty markers, they still demonstrated a high awareness in identifying all the categories of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse. The findings revealed the importance of metadiscourse features for the business news writers to fully utilise them in the news industry. |
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| spelling | upm-1026502024-02-08T03:29:53Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102650/ Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news Hooy, Chee Mei Tan, Helen Lee, Geok Imm Victor Danarajan, Sharon Sharmini Metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource in business news because it guides readers throughout the text. Business news is vital to keep people abreast of how the economy affects job opportunities, how high or low interest rates may go, and whether layoffs are imminent in local industries. However, it is the news that people read the least because it is not engaging to them. The study aims to investigate The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysiabusiness news writers’ awareness on the use of metadiscourse features. Metadiscourse Awareness Test was given to 10 business news writers from The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysiarespectively. The findings showed that sequencers had the lowest mean score (M=2.334) for textual metadiscourse, while certainty markers hadthe lowest mean score (M=2.667) for interpersonal metadiscourse. Although The Star Onlineand Focus Malaysia writers exhibited the lowest mean score in identifying sequencers and certainty markers, they still demonstrated a high awareness in identifying all the categories of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse. The findings revealed the importance of metadiscourse features for the business news writers to fully utilise them in the news industry. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2022-06 Article PeerReviewed Hooy, Chee Mei and Tan, Helen and Lee, Geok Imm and Victor Danarajan, Sharon Sharmini (2022) Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news. Issues in Language Studies, 11 (1). 165 - 182. ISSN 2180-2726 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/ILS/article/view/4480 10.33736/ils.4480.2022 |
| spellingShingle | Hooy, Chee Mei Tan, Helen Lee, Geok Imm Victor Danarajan, Sharon Sharmini Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title | Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title_full | Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title_fullStr | Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title_full_unstemmed | Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title_short | Writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in Malaysian business news |
| title_sort | writers’ awareness of metadiscourse features in malaysian business news |
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