Forms of metadiscourse in English academic writing: a cross-disciplinary and cross-generic analysis of meta-argumentative phraseology

This paper focuses on the role of meta-argumentative phraseology in English academic writing from a cross-disciplinary and cross-generic perspective. Special attention is paid to different types of organizational discourse units: interaction-oriented (meta-discursive) and text-oriented (meta-textual). Drawing in particular on corpus-based approaches to phraseology, the study focuses on how phraseological units vary across academic disciplines (with their variety of languages and approaches) and genres (with their variety of communicative purposes and functions).