Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English Authors
Hedging has attracted linguists� interest beginning with 1970�s and since then has been constantly analyzed from various perspectives, currently being successfully used in all types of discourse, including the economic discourse. The present paper aims at providing some insights into the use of hedg...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Risk in Contemporary Economy |
| Online Access: | http://www.rce.feaa.ugal.ro/images/stories/RCE2016/CarmenOpritMaftei.pdf |
| Summary: | Hedging has attracted linguists� interest beginning with 1970�s and since then has been constantly analyzed from various perspectives, currently being successfully used in all types of discourse, including the economic discourse. The present paper aims at providing some insights into the use of hedges in today�s written economic discourse (focusing on several research papers written in English by non-native English authors, more specifically Romanian writers). The purpose of the present paper is twofold. One the one hand, the paper attempts to shed light on the concept of hedging in academic writing (the theoretical part) and on the other hand, it attempts at achieving an inventory of hedges used in academic papers by non-native speakers of English (the empirical part). |
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| ISSN: | 2067-0532 2067-0532 |