The schematic structure of discussion sections in applied linguistics and the distribution of metadiscourse markers

This study examines the applicability of the schematic structure of research article (RA) discussion sections in the field of applied linguistics proposed by Yang and Allison (2003), and the organizational features of moves, and the distribution of metadiscourse markers across moves. The analysis is based on a corpus of 20 RAs from two high-profile journals in applied linguistics. Findings from the current study have shown that this schematic...