چكيده
Effective use of metadiscourse markers increases perfection in academic writing as an example of linguistic excellence. Besides, citation is an example of influential features which can be found in academic text, using attitude markers (AM) in pre- and post-citation arguments makes authors’ feelings, emotions, and attitudes obvious about the propositional content of the utterance being made. The main purpose of this study is to open a positive door for the writers, researchers, and learners to show how they can use appropriate AMs in pre- and post-citation arguments in order to persuade readers and convey their attitudes toward others' claims in their own texts. The data consists of 82 samples selected from among 14 applied linguistic textbooks in different topic areas which were selected randomly. AMs were investigated and categorized in pre- and post-citation arguments in the text based on Hyland’s (2005a) recent classification of metadiscourse. Considering qualitative nature of this research, the researcher did manual analysis by using Hyland’s (2005) list of AMs a criterion for identifying AMs. As a result, AMs were realized through various kinds of formal categories and patterns both in pre- and post-citation arguments such as “It + is + adjective”, “Even + X”, “Adverb”, “Adjective + Noun”. The study also concluded that the tendency of AMs in the present study was to occur chiefly in pre citation arguments. In addition, the findings of this study gave us a view point that AMs occurred in all types of citation such as integral, non-integral, direct, and indirect for the construction of persuasive argument at a discourse level.
Keywords: Attitude marker, Citation, Applied linguistic text book
