Table 7 A Meta-synthesized Model of RMs Competence in Writing EAP RAs
Dimensions | Concepts | Description |
|---|---|---|
Pragmatic markers | Basic markers | Markers which signal the force of the basic message. |
Commentary markers | Markers which comment and convey attitudes on some aspect of the basic message. | |
Discourse markers | Markers which show semantic relations between discourse segments. | |
Discourse management markers | Markers which signal a meta-comment on the structure of the discourse. | |
Meta-discourse markers | Meta-discourse markers | Markers which refer to the organization of the discourse and to the facets of the relationship between author and reader. |
Author-presence markers | Markers which realize authorial presence in the text. | |
Intensity markers | Markers which encode authors’ dispositions toward the text. | |
Indirectness markers | Markers which reduce imposition on the reader and bring solidarity. | |
Metaphorical markers | Factives | Markers which signal colligations with the topic of a metaphor on the basis of similarity, matching or analogy. |
Non-factives | Markers which signal the uncertainty of the author towards the truth value of the proposition. | |
Counter-factives | Markers which show literal comparisons. |