چکیده

The abstract section is well-accepted as a very vital part of any academic writing which is read more frequently than any other parts of the paper. Moreover, the abstract has a determinative role for readers to see whether they wish to read the rest of the paper or not. Metadiscourse markers are used as a tool to make the abstract section look more effective and coherent. This study aims to investigate the use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers in the abstract sections of conference proceedings of hard and soft science disciplines. To this end, the corpus was randomly selected from conference proceedings published in Procedia, Elsevier s online collection of high quality conference proceedings, from 2012 to 2018. The selected corpus, around 45000 words, was analyzed based on Hyland s (2005) model of metadiscourse markers. The overall findings indicated that metadiscourse markers were present in the two corpora. Moreover, the results showed that evidentials, frame markers and endophoric markers from the interactive category were used more frequently in the soft science corpus while the code glosses were used more frequently in the hard science corpus. Also, there was no significant difference in the use of hedges, boosters, self-mentions and engagement markers as interactional markers in the two corpora. Only the hard science authors preferred to employ attitude markers more than their counterpart. This study can help teachers to provide a useful guidance for learners and support them to write accurate and effective abstract.

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Abstract sections, Conference proceedings, Hard and soft sciences, Interactional metadiscourse markers, Interactive metadiscourse markers

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