Title:HedgesandBoostersinAcademicWriting: AStudyofGenderDifferencesinEssaysWrittenbySwedishAdvanced LearnersofEnglish. Author:SofiaSerholt Year:Spring2012 Department:Departmentoflanguagesandliteratures Supervisor:ProfessorJenniferHerriman Examiner:JoeTrotta Keywords:Hedges,boosters,SwedishL2students,academicwriting,epistemi...
These findings not only paved the way for further studies in the use of hedges and boosters but they also presented some beneficial implications for teaching of academic writing to EFL learners. Keywords: Hedges, Boosters, Academic Writing, EFL learners, Bilingual...
This article studies the use of lexical hedges and boosters in English‐medium Master's theses by L2 (Czech) graduates in English language and literature programmes. Drawing on the metadiscourse framework and adopting a corpus‐based approach, the study analyses the frequency, realisations,...
Hedges and boosters in women\"s and men\"s speech J Holmes 被引量: 0发表: 1990年 Boosting, hedging and the negotiation of academic knowledge The quantitative results reveal the importance of hedges and boosters in academic writing and their wide disciplinary variability. The analysis shows that...
Linguistics manifests the highest distribution of hedges and code glosses, medicine the highest number of boosters, literature the highest frequency of evidentials. Chemistry has the lowest frequency of all metadiscoursal devices. This study aims to help students of academic writing to ...
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The ways in which researchers present the results of their research and make claims about them are determined by the conventions of academic writing held by the scientific community. This article examines the use of hedges and boosters in the published articles of PhD students ...
In the path of academic writing, authors accomplish certain interactions with their readers through the means of meta-discourse markers such as hedges and boosters. There have been many studies that dwell on the function of meta-discourse markers (Abdi, Rizi, & Tavakoli, 2010;...
2016. Cross-Cultural Variation in the Use of Hedges and Boosters in Academic Discourse. Prague Journal of English Studies 5: 163–84. [CrossRef] Getkham, Kanyarat. 2011. Hedging devices in applied linguistics research articles. In Interdisciplinary Discourses in Language and Communication. Paper ...
Based on the analysis of 80 English and Chinese abstracts,this paper attempts to show the structural elements and the distribution of thehedgesand boosters in the abs. 本研究对80篇英汉学术论文摘要的构成元素以及摘要中模糊限定语与强势限定语两种限定修饰语的使用分布情况进行了对比分析,结果发现汉语论文摘...