Abstract
With the development of tourism industry in internet plus era, travel blogs have become the main form of travel recording. Regarded as a valid device to intrude readers and to construct interaction between the writers and their readers, interactional metadiscourse is adopted widely. The study builds a corpus which consists of 30 English travel blogs. By calculating the occurrences and analyzing the functions of interactional metadiscourse, the study chooses qualitative and quantitative analysis to indicate how blogger writers communicate with the readers within narrative travel blogs and how they influence the reader’s future travel experience by using typical interactional metadiscourse.
Highlights
With the increased level of people’s life, tourism industry has apparently become prevailing and is thriving at a high speed
By calculating the occurrences and analyzing the functions of interactional metadiscourse, the study chooses qualitative and quantitative analysis to indicate how blogger writers communicate with the readers within narrative travel blogs and how they influence the reader’s future travel experience by using typical interactional metadiscourse
By quantitative and qualitative analysis, the study reveals the occurrences of interactional metadiscourse and analyzes
Summary
How to cite this paper: Huang, Y., Wang, H. A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse in English Travel Blogs. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 10, 785-793. Received: October 23, 2020 Accepted: November 28, 2020 Published: December 1, 2020
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