Advanced Linguistics, № 15/2025

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Exploring metadiscourse in albanian doctoral dissertation abstracts using Hyland taxonomy
(КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2025) Cani, Irena
Metadiscourse elements help construct the relationship between the writer and the reader in academic texts. The present study is a comparative, corpus-based examination of the usage, types, and distribution of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features in Albanian doctoral dissertation abstracts. Adopting Hyland’s (2005a) metadiscourse framework, we analyzed a corpus of 50 dissertation abstracts (25 from the natural sciences and 25 from the philological sciences) randomly selected from the University of Tirana repository. The findings demonstrate that, in both disciplines, writers employ interactive metadiscourse features far more extensively than interactional ones. Within the interactive category, transitions and frame markers are the most prevalent devices, while in the interactional category, hedges and self-mentions occur most frequently. This predominance of interactive markers suggests an emphasis on guiding readers through the text and ensuring coherence, whereas interactional markers that directly engage readers are comparatively scarce. These findings provide insights for contrastive rhetoric, corpus linguistics, and academic writing pedagogy, and they underscore the importance of raising writers’ awareness of metadiscourse usage in doctoral research writing.