| Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1-15 |
| Abbreviation: APJCR |
| e-ISSN: 2733-8096 |
| Publication date: 31 December 2021 |
| Received: 14 September 2021 / Received in Revised Form: 17 November 2021 / Accepted: 7 December 2021 |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2021.2.2.1
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Metadiscourse in the Bank Negara Malaysia Governor’s Speech Texts |
| Roslina Abdul Aziz (Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang), Norzie Diana Baharum (Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang) |
| Copyright 2021 APJCR
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Abstract |
| The study aims to explore the use of metadiscourse in the Bank Negara Malaysia Governor’s speeches based on Hyland’s Interpersonal Model of Metadiscourse. The corpus data consist of 343 speech texts, which were extracted from the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MacFE), amounting to 688,778 tokens. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative approaches to data analysis the study investigates (1) the overall use of metadiscourse in the Bank Negara Governor’s speech texts and (2) the functions of the most prominent metadiscourse resources used and their functions in the speech texts. The findings reveal that the Governor’s speech texts to be interactional rather than interactive, revealing a rich distribution of interactional metadiscourse resources, namely engagement markers, self-mention, hedges, boosters and attitude markers throughout the texts. The interactional metadiscourse resources function to establish speaker-audience engagement and alignment of views, as well as to express degree of uncertainty and certainty and attitudes. The study concludes that the speech texts are not merely informational or propositional, but rather interpersonal. |
Keywords |
| Corpus-based, MaCFE, Metadiscourse, Specialised Corpus, Speech Texts |
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The Authors |
| Roslina Abdul Aziz is a senior lecturer at the Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang. She holds a PhD in Corpus Linguistics from Universiti Malaya. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse, and teaching English as a second language.
Norzie Diana Baharum has been teaching English at Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang for 12 years. She read English at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Her research interests include language use in academic setting, sociolinguistics, critical reading and thinking as well as women’s literary writings. |
The Authors’ Addresses |
| First and Corresponding Author Roslina Abdul Aziz Senior Lecturer Akademi Pengajian Bahasa Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang Kampus Jengka 26400 Bandar Jengka Pahang DM, MALAYSIA E-mail: leenaziz@uitm.edu.my Co-author  DOI QR Code |
