The Role of Passive Voice in Hedging Medical Discourse: a Corpus-based Study on English and Spanish Research Articles

The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting their knowledge in an academic discourse community and much work has therefore been done on this relevant feature, especially on its use in the rhetoric of specialized texts in English. Some authors beli...

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Main Author: Sonia Oliver del Olmo
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2015-04-01
Series:Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
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Online Access:https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/162