Table 2 Interactive metadiscourse in three corpora (per 10,000 words).

From: Metadiscourse in the research abstracts of an interdisciplinary field: a case study of computational linguistics

Interactive metadiscourse

AL

CL

CS

Total

Transition markers

88.44

111.86

100.06

300.36

Frame markers

106.13

131.63

86.24

324

Endophoric markers

3.05

1.69

3.32

8.06

Evidential markers

1.83

0.00

1.66

3.49

Code glosses

39.65

55.36

53.07

148.08

Total

239.1

300.54

244.35

783.99