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This corpus-based study examines the use of interpersonal metadiscourse devices in eight American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference handbooks spanning the years 2007–2014. A concordance program (CasualConc) was used to search for recurring patterns in the AAAL corpus and to compare the results with a corpus compiled from conference handbooks of four different hard disciplines. Of...