The search for a promising career position is very difficult and highly competitive and an appealing well-written job application letter is its crucial first step. This paper is to apply the latest genre analysis appr...The search for a promising career position is very difficult and highly competitive and an appealing well-written job application letter is its crucial first step. This paper is to apply the latest genre analysis approach to 40-job-application-letter corpus. The analysis is essentially pragmatic-oriented in that its findings will not only benefit those who try to teach students how to write job application letters, but also offer genre analysis practitioners some valuable insights into the latest development of their research focus.展开更多
Under the theoretical framework of Hyland＇s interpersonal model of metadiscourse, an in-depth analysis of the distribution and characteristics of metadiscourse in English job applications is carried out. The findings...Under the theoretical framework of Hyland＇s interpersonal model of metadiscourse, an in-depth analysis of the distribution and characteristics of metadiscourse in English job applications is carried out. The findings show that metadiscourse is frequently used in English job applications and these resources have different occurrence frequencies. The writers use more interactional metadiscourse than interactive metadiscourse. Among all the metadiscourse subcategories, self-mentions, transitions and hedges are frequently used. The analysis demonstrates that all metadiscourse resources seem to stress the interpersonal potential in order to convey a persuasive message under an informative mask. It is also shown that metadiscourse use is genre-constrained and the writer＇s writing purpose.展开更多
文摘The search for a promising career position is very difficult and highly competitive and an appealing well-written job application letter is its crucial first step. This paper is to apply the latest genre analysis approach to 40-job-application-letter corpus. The analysis is essentially pragmatic-oriented in that its findings will not only benefit those who try to teach students how to write job application letters, but also offer genre analysis practitioners some valuable insights into the latest development of their research focus.
文摘Under the theoretical framework of Hyland＇s interpersonal model of metadiscourse, an in-depth analysis of the distribution and characteristics of metadiscourse in English job applications is carried out. The findings show that metadiscourse is frequently used in English job applications and these resources have different occurrence frequencies. The writers use more interactional metadiscourse than interactive metadiscourse. Among all the metadiscourse subcategories, self-mentions, transitions and hedges are frequently used. The analysis demonstrates that all metadiscourse resources seem to stress the interpersonal potential in order to convey a persuasive message under an informative mask. It is also shown that metadiscourse use is genre-constrained and the writer＇s writing purpose.
