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DOI:10.1016/S0889-4906(97)00007-0 - Corpus ID: 144353888
@article{Crompton1997HedgingIA, title={Hedging in academic writing: Some theoretical problems}, author={Peter Crompton}, journal={English for Specific Purposes}, year={1997}, volume={16}, pages={271-287}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144353888}}- P. Crompton
- Published 1997
- Linguistics, Education
- English for Specific Purposes
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261 Citations
- M. A. MahmoodCihan University-Erbil
- 2018
Linguistics
Hedging plays a crucial role in academic writing style and research articles in particular. It has been proven that hedges fulfil a wide range of both prepositional and interpersonal functions, since…
- Cuneyt Demir
- 2018
Linguistics
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…
- 16
- Oktay YagizCuneyt Demir
- 2014
Linguistics
- 33
- Highly Influenced
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- A. Kristić
- 2018
Linguistics
In terms of linguistics hedging is a topic that is commonly related to syntax and pragmatics. It is a valuable asset not only in academic writing but also in communication in general. As it…
- Highly Influenced
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- A. Musa
- 2014
Linguistics, Chemistry
Academic texts are no longer perceived as mere neutral accounts of factual information; they are currently viewed as socially constructed rhetorical artefacts which aim at negotiating and persuading…
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- H. Itakura
- 2013
Linguistics
- 33
- B. Lewin
- 2005
Linguistics
- 98
- F. GhazanfariBistoon Abassi
- 2012
Linguistics
As a feature of academic writing, hedging deals with toning down of scientific claims. There is a clear pedagogical justification for clarification of the concept, especially since it is usually a…
- 4
- Hans Malmström
- 2015
Linguistics
This study investigates hedging (standardly assumed to express uncertainty, plausible reasoning and the like) in contemporary sermonic discourse as represented by sermon manuscripts and…
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- Zeynep Doyuran
- 2009
Linguistics, Geology
This paper aims at determining the role of hedges in Turkish scientific articles by identifying the purposes, distribution and major forms of hedges. The field of geological engineering and…
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Linguistics, Education
Preface - Charles R Cooper and Sidney Greenbaum Introduction - Walter Nash The Stuff These People Write The Literary Argument and Its Discursive Conventions - Susan Peck MacDonald Modality in…
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Taylor’s (1953) chief interest in cloze procedure was to develop a simple readability measure for journalistic prose. He reasoned that the more nth-word deletions native readers could restore from…
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Linguistics, Philosophy
Preface A note on symbols 1. Introduction 1.1 Historical preamble 1.2 Semantics and pragmatics 1.3 General pragmatics 1.4 Aspects of speech situations 1.5 Rhetoric 2. A set of postulates 2.1 Semantic…
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