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@article{Demir2018HedgingAA, title={Hedging and academic writing: an analysis of lexical hedges}, author={Cuneyt Demir}, journal={Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies}, year={2018}, volume={14}, pages={74-92}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149825670}}- Cuneyt Demir
- Published 30 December 2018
- Linguistics
- Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
Hedging is an important metadiscourse device that should be used for various motives particularly in academic writing because it acts as a face-saving strategy and represents the certainty of the scientists’ knowledge on the study field, but nevertheless it is not an obvious consideration for many non-native writers of English. Although the significance of hedging in academic writing is beyond argument, excessive use of it may create a counter-productive result. In other words while underuse of…
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