Metadiscourse in Three Minute Thesis Presentations: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Qiang Zhou, Xiaohui Yu, Xurui Zhang and Yashuang Liu

SAGE Open, 2025, vol. 15, issue 2, 21582440251342830

Abstract: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, as a flourishing academic genre, contributes to assisting scholars to popularize scientific knowledge to a heterogenous audience. Regarding metadiscourse of 3MT genre, much attention has been paid to the interactional features, while its interactive features have been underexplored. This study examined 3MT presentations from two planes of metadiscourse, adopting Hyland’s interactive metadiscourse framework and Qiu and Jiang’s modified model of interactional metadiscourse. To investigate the disciplinary similarities and differences between hard sciences and soft sciences, and explore the underlying reasons, this study built a 3MT corpus of 120 presentations with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Results indicate that metadiscourse devices are more abundant in hard sciences than in soft sciences (LL = 24.21, p  

Keywords: three minute thesis (3MT) presentations; metadiscourse; interdisciplinary comparison; spoken academic genres; science popularization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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