Metadiscourse is often called “discourse about discourse”. Since Harris first put forward the term metadiscourse in 1959, metadiscourse has become a research hotspot in the field of discourse analysis, language teaching, and pragmatics. The classification of metadiscourse is mostly based on Vande Kopple’s classification. This paper introduces the definition and classification of metadiscourse
Citation: Chen Chen (2021) A Review of Metadiscourse, International Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol.9, No.6, pp., 82-85
Keywords: Classification, Metadiscourse, metadiscouse