Hedging in academic writing - a pedagogically-motivated qualitative study

The present study explores the use of hedges in academic writing based on Hyland's (1996) pragmatic framework of hedging orientations. It also elicits insight from specialist informants on the use of hedges in academic writing. The corpus comprises thirty randomly-selected research article disc...

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Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Lim, Jason Miin Hwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/16924/1/Hedging_in_academic_writing.pdf