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<p style="text-align:justify;">The acknowledgement section in a thesis or dissertation expresses gratitude for the people who have helped the&nbsp;author in the process of conducting the research and writing the paper. The study sought to explore the extent to&nbsp;which metadiscourse markers have been employed in the dissertation acknowledgements. Excluding the&nbsp;rhetorical moves, emotional tones and cultural backgrounds, the research has primarily contrasted dissertation&nbsp;acknowledgements written by Iranian EFL doctoral graduates and English native speakers at an identical level.&nbsp;Hyland’s metadiscourse model features and his four-tier main obligatory thanking move was applied to&nbsp;determine and interpret the features predominantly used in the thesis acknowledgements. A qualitative analysis&nbsp;of the results revealed that except for a meaningful difference in attitude markers, Iranian acknowledgements&nbsp;were consistent with the model and not any noticeable difference detected in using interactive metadiscourse&nbsp;features between Iranians and native speakers when writing their dissertation acknowledgements.</p>

A Cross-Linguistic Study on the Reflection of Metadiscourse Markers in the Acknowledgements of the Iranian and Native English Dissertations

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