Abstract : The present paper explores how organizational metadiscourse is realized in lectures and compares its use across lecturing styles (Dudley-Evans, 1994). With the aim of offering a thorough description of the use of organizational metadiscourse in lectures and its distribution, 152 lectures belonging to 6 full courses in Humanities were selected from Yale University’s OpenCourseWare to be analyzed. To compare lecturing styles, two of the courses were taught by conversational style lecturers, two by rhetorical style lecturers, and two by reading style lecturers. All instances of organizational metadiscourse were manually identified and analyzed following Ädel’s (2010) taxonomy. The results show a predominance of previewers, reviewers and introducing topic metadiscourse with similarities in each pair of lectures. The results also show a common distribution of organizational metadiscourse across lecturing styles at the beginning and end of courses, and in the introductions and structuring segments within the lectures.
