The discourse of biosanitary institutions on Women's Health: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Interpersonal Metadiscourse
Abstract
This study analyzes interpersonal metadiscourse in a corpus of written texts produced by the main macro-actors and meso-actors involved in the social debate on women's health in Spain. This corpus constitutes a representative sample of institutional discourse in the biosanitary domain, articulated through a family of genres aimed both at professionals in the clinical field and at the broadest audience possible. Following a hybrid methodology that combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the study explores the authorial voice’s stance and the degree to which readers are engaged in the discourse of these institutions. In line with previous studies, we advocate for a flexibilization of Hyland’s model of interpersonal metadiscourse in order to account for the specificity of biosanitary discursive practices
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