Personal Metadiscourse Features on TED Talks by British Speakers
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.079How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- British English, metadiscourse features, personal metadiscourse, pronouns, TED Talks
- Abstract
The present research aims to analyze types and functions of personal metadiscourse used by native speakers (British) during their performance on TED Talks. The study applied Ädel’s (2006) taxonomy of personal metadiscourse in academic discourses to capture the occurrences of personal metadiscourse. Personal metadiscourses (I, we, you) are commonly applied in written language. Only a few of them can be found in spoken language. Once there is the spoken one, they are typically performed in monologue setting, such as in classroom, seminar, or lecture environment. Data for this research were taken from 5 videos of TED Talks uploaded on YouTube. This study used a qualitative method to analyze the transcriptions provided on the videos. To identify and count the concordances of each unit of personal metadiscourse, AntConc 3.4.3w 2014 was applied. This study revealed that British speakers employ pronouns “I”, “You”, and “We” both in metatext and audience interaction. However, not all pronouns can be found in each function. In metatext category pronoun “You” is rarely used while pronoun I is mostly used by British speakers in discourse organization for exemplifying. Pronoun “You” and “We” are used in audience interaction category for managing messages. This study contributes to ESL/EFL teachers and students who are learning how to present facts effectively, argue and persuade convincingly, and manage speaker and listener visibility.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shanty A.Y.P.S Duwila AU - Yeni Probowati PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - Personal Metadiscourse Features on TED Talks by British Speakers BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 520 EP - 526 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.079 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.079 ID - Duwila2021 ER -