Meta-discourse aspects in Joe Biden’s inauguration speech

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The aim of this study is to find the types and to explain meta-discourse strategies used in Joe Biden's selected speech.

The study also tries to analyze the selected data by using the Hyland (2005) method or model in which meta-discourse is sorted in to two main kinds Textual and Interpersonal.

The study has reached a number of conclusions; the most significant one is that interpersonal meta-discourse is frequently used by Biden for the purpose of affecting and directing American people.

The study tries to have the answers to the following Questions: - 1-What type of meta-discourse markers used in Joe Biden's selected speech? 2-What are the frequencies of the interactional and interpersonal meta-discourse markers in the selected speech? 3-What are the most important functions of meta-discourse in Biden's speech?