INTERACTIVE METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN INFORMED CONSENT TEMPLATES FOR DENTAL TREATMENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/2410-0927-2022-16-15Keywords:
metadiscourse, interactive markers, informed consent, transitional markers, code glosses, frame markersAbstract
Purpose of this study is to define and examine interactive metadiscourse markers that navigate the patients through the texts and help them to interpret the texts of informed consent for dental treatment in a more precise manner. Methodology. Twenty original informed consent templates for dental treatment used in the USA healthcare settings authorized to render oral and dental services were analyzed in this descriptive and exploratory study. The texts were also processed by Text inspector, a professional web tool, to analyze metadiscourse markers. The identification and categorization of the metadiscourse in the informed consents is grounded on the metadiscourse model of K. Hyland. Novelty. Informed consent is a genre in which awareness of the audience is critical in capturing rhetorical objectives and metadiscourse helps to establish relationship between writer, reader, socio-cultural context, and specific communicative situation. This study, the first attempt to investigate metadiscourse markers in English informed consent templates, has demonstrated that the interactive metadiscourse primarily focused on assistance on the reader’s text navigation and text organization based on the writer’s awareness of the audience, are somewhat superior over the interactional ones aimed at getting the readers involved in the text. Results. Interactive metadiscourse in the informed consent templates are predominantly represented by transitional markers, code glosses and frame markers in combination with visual elements. The endophoric markers and evidentials are the least used interactive metadiscourse devices. This can be explained by communication purposes and strategies of this genre to organize health-related information into a meaningful structure for the readers, and direct them to the right voluntary and educated decision making.
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