%0 Journal Article %A Míguez-Álvarez, Carla %A Varela, Luis G. %A Cuevas-Alonso, Miguel %T Identification of metadiscourse markers in bachelor’s degree theses in Spanish: Introduction of a text mining tool %D 2023 %J Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics %V 36 %N 1 %P 329-351 %@ 0213-2028 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.20055.mig %K marcadores interactivos %K bachelor thesis %K corpus analysis %K interactional markers %K metadiscourse markers %K metadiscurso %K análisis de corpus %K trabajo fin de grado %K programa de software %K metadiscourse %K marcadores interaccionales %K marcadores del metadiscurso %K text mining %K software program %K interactive markers %K minería de textos %I John Benjamins %X Abstract

This article introduces a text mining tool that can automatically extract information using Hyland’s analysis model as a theoretical framework to analyse the use and characteristics of metadiscourse in large quantities of academic texts. To verify its validity, we present the results obtained using this tool on various bachelor’s degree theses with a particular focus on the field of engineering. Our results on a 6.9 million-word corpus extracted from 680 bachelor’s theses available online show that interactive metadiscourse markers are prevalent in engineering bachelor’s theses as well as in the authors’ metadiscourse patterns. In addition, we compared our results with previous research on metadiscourse markers. Our study can be used to identify the usage of various types of metadiscourse markers during the production of texts and for the development of software applications involving quantitative linguistic methods for the production of academic texts. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/resla.20055.mig