Cross-cultural Variations of Interactional Metadiscourse between China and Britain

Libin Duan; Fengling Wang

doi:10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250022.20230701

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Cross-cultural Variations of Interactional Metadiscourse between China and Britain

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Cross-cultural Variations of Interactional Metadiscourse between China and Britain
1. Sichuan Normal University,China,610101
2. Kunming University of Science and Technology,China,65000
Vol. 7, Issue 1, Pages: 110-114(2023)
DOI：10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250022.20230701

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Libin Duan, Fengling Wang. Cross-cultural Variations of Interactional Metadiscourse between China and Britain. [J]. Journal of International Education and Development 7(1):110-114(2023)
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Libin Duan, Fengling Wang. Cross-cultural Variations of Interactional Metadiscourse between China and Britain. [J]. Journal of International Education and Development 7(1):110-114(2023) DOI： 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250022.20230701.

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Abstract

With the increase of China’s global influence in economy

technology

and culture

etc.

more foreigners prefer to come to China for a visit. They will first go through China tourism websites to make their tour schedule. In order to make China tourism websites more attractive to foreign visitors

this paper compared the characteristics of China and Britain tourism websites based on the interactional metadiscourse theory. Two websites (Beijing and London) of travel agencies were chosen

covering 10 top attractions respectively. Metadiscoursive analyses showed that despite some minor similarities

the two sub-corpus displayed sharp contrast in terms of the way interactional metadiscourse was deployed. These observed differences were attributable to culture

tradition and thinking modes characteristic of the two cultural communities. Therefore

it is suggested that China tourism websites improve the linguistic characteristics

using more interactional metadiscourse especially more engagement markers to adapt to the target customers.

关键词

Keywords

Interactional metadiscourseTourism discourseEngagement marker

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