Abstract
This paper investigates the use of textual and interactional metadiscourse markers in two commencement speeches given by English and Georgian speakers from the perspective of Pragmatics and discourse analysis.
➢ The study is specifically based on Hyland's (2005) framework of metadiscourse markers according to their pragmatic and metalinguistic functions.
➢ This theoretical framework is concerned with language in use, giving more importance to the context in which they occur.
➢ Using the qualitative research the author attempts: (1) to look at which metadiscourse markers are used in particular discourse; (2) to collect the data and gather the information through watching video recordings of Georgian and English commencement speeches; (3) to provide a through explanation of addresser's communicative intentions based on their choice of DMs; (4) to identify and analyze
English metadiscourse markers in comparison to their selected Georgian equivalents;
(5) to present results of the analysis in the form of words in an empirical part of the study