Language representations of the promotion strategy: metadiscourse markers in academic articles on linguistics

The article is devoted to the study of metadiscourse markers as a tool for implementing the promotion strategy in Russian-language academic linguistic discourse. The aim of the work is to identify the features of the application and role of metadiscourse markers based on articles published in the leading Russian journal “Acta Linguistica Petropolitana”. The theoretical basis of the study was K. Hyland’s metadiscourse model, which views an academic text as a space for interaction between the author and the reader. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that a comprehensive analysis of the means of implementing the promotion strategy in the corpus of the specified linguistic journal is carried out for the first time, which makes it possible to identify trends characteristic of modern Russian academic rhetoric. By employing quantitative analysis, metadiscourse markers were classified and the most frequent linguistic means used by authors to attract the attention of readers, position the novelty and significance of their work, and present the results convincingly were identified. It has been proven that metadiscourse markers are an integral component of the promotion strategy, contributing to effective scientific communication.