Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English- and Chinese-medium journals

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2795-2809

  Hu, Guangwei ^a   Cao, Feng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Article abstract; Booster; Epistemological belief; Hedge; Metadiscourse; Rhetorical convention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960251786     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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