Author(s)

Ying Huang, Huijian Wang, Junhong Tang

Baoding University, Baoding, China.

With the development of tourism industry in internet plus era, travel blogs have become the main form of travel recording. Regarded as a valid device to intrude readers and to construct interaction between the writers and their readers, interactional metadiscourse is adopted widely. The study builds a corpus which consists of 30 English travel blogs. By calculating the occurrences and analyzing the functions of interactional metadiscourse, the study chooses qualitative and quantitative analysis to indicate how blogger writers communicate with the readers within narrative travel blogs and how they influence the reader’s future travel experience by using typical interactional metadiscourse.

Metadiscourse, Interactional Metadiscourse, English Travel Blogs

Huang, Y. , Wang, H. and Tang, J. (2020) A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse in English Travel Blogs. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 10, 785-793. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2020.106048.