Metadiscourse in Digital Communication

Larissa D’Angelo is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She is an active member of CERLIS (Research Centre on Specialized Languages) and her main research interests deal with biometric analyses, multimodality, audiovisual translation, corpus linguistics and metadiscourse.Anna Mauranen is Professor and Research Director at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research and publications include those on ELF, academic discourses, corpus linguistics, translation studies, and theoretical modelling of speech. She is co-editor of Applied Linguistics and formerly founding co-editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.Stefania Maci is Full Professor of English Language, pro Vice-Chancellor of Education, Director of CERLIS at the University of Bergamo and serves on the Board of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica). Her research is focused on the study of the English language in academic and professional contexts, with particular regard to the analysis of tourism and medical discourses.

• Chapter 1 Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: A short introduction.- Chapter 2 “Gonna write about it on my blog too” Metadiscourse in research blog discussions.- Chapter 3 Reflections on reflexivity in digital communication: Toward a third wave of metadiscourse studies.- Chapter 4 Metadiscourse in Academic Research Articles vs. Blogs: Paul Krugman as a Case Study.- Chapter 5 This Has Changed: ‘Out-of-the-Box’ metadiscourse in Scientific Graphical Abstracts.- Chapter 6 Lemons and watermelons: Visual advertising and conceptual blending.- Chapter 7 Metadiscourse In Social Media: A Reflexive Framework.

“Various chapters as well as the Introduction offer a view of what metadiscourse is and what direction metadiscourse should take, thus providing this encompassing perspective to novice scholars in the field, but also offering a critical view to more knowledgeable readers. Moreover, the book may be of great interest to digital discourse analysts and researchers … . the volume reads as a versatile, promising window into what metadiscourse might offer to digital discourse analysis.” (Rosa Lorés, ESP Today, Vol. 11 (2), 2023)