Hedging: An exploratory study of authors' and readers' identification of 'toning down' in scientific texts

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-178

  Lwein, Beverly A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

English for Academic Purposes; Hedging; Scientific texts; Toning down

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844401215     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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