Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.

• Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion

Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.

• Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion

Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.

• Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion