Intersubjectivity-constructing Resources in Academic Texts: Identification,Assessment and Application——Comments on Hyland's Model of Metadiscourse

The article aims to identify, describe and assess intersubjectivity-constructing resources in academic discourse.Intersubjectivity is the author's indirect manipulation of the interactants involved in the academic activity, i.e.the author and the reader.The article holds that Hyland's model of metadiscourse is an effective approach to describing and assessing intersubjectivity-constructing resources in academic texts and of pedagogical significance.On the one hand, the systematicity of the model enables valid description of intersubjectivity-construction patterns in given texts and thus helps to analyse academic texts on the dimension of intersubjectivity construction.On the other hand, the model shows how to construct appropriate intersubjectivity in academic writing and facilitates to foster the writer's awareness of intersubjectivity-construction and strategies to build intersubjectivity.