Interactional Metadiscourse in English and Persian News Articles about 9/11

This study aimed to illuminate the role of interactional metadiscourse markers in English and Persian news articles about 9/11 events. For this purpose, 30 English and Persian news reports (15 from each) were collected randomly. In order to explore the frequency of these types of metadiscourse and their supposedly significant difference s in both sets of data, Hyland classification system was utilized. The findings from the research illustrated...