Abstract
The present study was carried out to compare the use of metadiscourse textual resources (MTRs) in terms of frequency in two original novels and their simplified counterparts (i.e., Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D’Urbervilles). The researchers were interested to understand how writers of original and simplified novels made use of metadiscourse elements and whether original and simplified novels differed in the use of these resources. The corpus used in this study was analyzed based on Hyland and Tse’s (2004) model. The frequency of MTRs was calculated per 1,000 words and the difference in their distribution across original novels and their simplified versions was checked using the statistical analysis technique of Chi-Square. The findings indicated that there was not a significant difference in the frequency of MTRs between original and simplified novels analyzed here, implying that the writers of both original and simplified novels strived to provide a coherent text.
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