This study aims at exploring the role of metadiscourse in listening comprehension.

And in translation activities, the use of metadiscourse embodies the discourse awareness of the translator, which helps the translator convey the thought of the original text faithfully and smoothly while conforming to the nature of the target language.

This paper examines the Anticipatory It-Clause, and explores its function of metadiscourse in academic papers.

It pinpoints that authors of different disciplines should take different strategies in applying meta-discourse to achieve communication,shared knowledge a.

Discourse has two levels: primary discourse and meta-discourse.

The study of text-connectives theoretically comes under the strategy of meta-discourse (Kopple, 1985).

In view of this situation, this paper, employing systemic functional approach, puts forward a new perspective on assessing writing — a textual metafunction perspective, by analyzing the Thematic structure both above and at the clausal level and uncovering the strengths and weaknesses of the student s writing, and giving it a full functional analysis from t.

This dissertation purports to illuminate the stylistic value of grammatical metaphor from an integrated perspective of functional stylistics and cognitive stylistics with a corpus-based analysis of English metalinguistic texts (EMTs).

Analysis of thematic progressions in narrative texts and its application in the teaching of writing;

A contrast of cohesion between English and Chinese texts and relevant translation strategies;