Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
6th International English for Specific Purposes, Ankara, Türkiye, 1 - 02 Kasım 2024, ss.26-27, (Özet Bildiri)
This preliminary study aims at unveiling metadiscourse use in YouTube travel vlogs through the analysis of the speech of travel vloggers and other semiotic resources present in the vlogs. To achieve its aims, Ädel’s (2010, 2023) taxonomies of metadiscourse will be adopted as the theoretical frameworks of the current study and corpus linguistics methodologies will be employed for data collection and analysis. Accordingly, A smaller set of the specialized multimodal corpus consisting of selected YouTube travel vlogs in English through a sampling frame will be analyzed with a corpus-assisted and bottom-up approach to identify the metadiscourse units and their functions. Enlarging the scope of Ädel’s (2010, 2023) taxonomy of metadiscourse by including new forms of personal metadiscourse and categorizing them with new discourse functions, as well as adding multimodal aspect dimension to it are expected as a result of this study. Overall, the findings can serve as useful guidelines for both new travel vloggers who are in need of assistance and experienced ones who target more view counts and subscribers. What is more, learners of English language can make use of the outcomes of the present study to keep up with the everchanging dynamics of online communication and employ them in both their personal and professional lives.
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