Abstract
Engagement markers are linguistic devices through which academic writers pull their readers into their texts and negotiate with them. This particular form of negotiation is crucial for the acceptance of new academic knowledge claimed by academic writers in addition to meeting the expectations of readers who are highly proficient scholars, specifically in postgraduate genres. A great deal of research has concentrated on the use of engagement markers in research articles. Hence, this study presents a comparative analysis of engagement markers in master’s and doctorate theses written by native academic writers of English and Turkish academic writers of English. The corpus is constructed for the investigation includes 1.148.992 words of master’s and doctorate theses written between 2010 and 2019 in English language-related fields. The concordance software, AntConc version 3.5.8, was utilized to calculate the frequency counts of engagement markers. We ran Log-likelihood statistics to determine whether there was a statistical difference among four corpora regarding engagement marker usage. In addition to cross-cultural variations in the two academic communities, we observed identical strategies in master’s and doctorate theses by both groups of academic writers.
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