insight from specialist informants on the use of hedges in academic writing. The corpus comprises thirty randomly-selected research article discussions (published between 2010-2014) from the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. The analysis reveals that a repertoire of lexical signals and hedging...
18. Lakoff, G., 1972, Hedges: a study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts. In Hockey et al.(eds.) (1975) Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics. Dorfrecht, Holland/ Boston, U.S.A: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 19. Lakoff, R., 1977, ...
Interpersonal Meanings of Hedges in Academic Discourse; 学术话语中模糊限制语的人际意义 2. Interpersonal functions of hedges in English scientific writing; 科技英语语篇中模糊限制语的人际功能 3. Gender Differences of Chinese College Students (Non-English Majors) in the Use of Hedges; 大学生(非英...
As you can see, each of these presents a meaning that is more truthful than the first sentence. These sentences use various forms of hedging language in order to convey an accurate and fair meaning. Why do we need hedging language? As you saw in the previous examples, hedging language make...
16. Hyland, K., 1998, Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 17. Kasper, G., 1979, Communication Strategies: Modality Reduction. The Interlanguage Studies Bulletin, Vol. 4: 1. Utrecht, 266-283. 18. Lakoff, G., 1972, Hedges: a study in meaning criteria and the ...
Finally, the responses of 54 students to the comprehension questions on other passages were affected by authors' use of tentative language.; Results were interpreted in terms of systemic-functional grammar which views a written text as a social act: patterns of usage only have meaning when ...
2.2. Operationalization of hedges and boosters Based on Hyland’s metadiscourse model (see Hyland, 2005a; Hyland and Tse, 2004) and Holmes’s research on linguistic resources for expressing epistemic and affective meaning in English (see Holmes, 1982, 1988, 1990), we identified a number of ...
Singapore1.IntroductionThisstudyexaminestheuseofhedgesandboostersasmetadiscoursemarkersinthegenreoftheacademicarticleabstractfromacomparativeperspective.Accordingtoanoften-quoteddefinition,metadiscourseconsistsof‘‘theself-reflectiveexpressionsusedtonegotiateinteractionalmeaningsinatext,assistingthewriter(orspeaker)to...
While the literature places the importance of hedging in scientific writing in the English language, we know little about hedging in Chinese and its fre... MLY Wong 被引量: 1发表: 2009年 Modality in Scientific Communication. A Case Study of Modal Meaning in Scientific Articles (Economics) in...
18. Lakoff, G., 1972, Hedges: a study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts. In Hockey et al.(eds.) (1975) Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics. Dorfrecht, Holland/ Boston, U.S.A: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 19. Lakoff, R., 1977, ...