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OSORIO A, Belkis E  y  ANEZ B, Esteban. Interactional Metadiscourse in PhD Theses’ Education. Revista de Investigación [online]. 2017, vol.41, n.92, pp.13-33. ISSN 1010-2914.

The metadiscourse is an important linguistic mechanism used to establish interpersonal relations between the author and the reader of an academic text, and for the identity expression of the first as representative of a given discursive genre. Using Hyland’s model, 10 Venezuelan doctoral theses in education and 10 other Spanish ones were analyzed to describe the frequency of use of metadiscursive markers and how they are used in theses. Results, similar in both groups, indicate a significant difference in the frequency of emphasizing markers to the detriment of the relievers. In the markers of automention stands out the absence of use of the first person in singular, predominating the markers of the first person in t plural and in the third person in singular. As a conclusion, these results indicate the attachment of the Venezuelan and Spanish theses to a positivist academic discourse despite the qualitative nature of the studies. We, therefore recommend an approach to the subjective prose of an interpretive naturalistic discourse.

Palabras clave : Metadiscourse; PhD theses; discursive genre.

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