Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English Authors

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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Main Author: Carmen Oprit-Maftei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati 2016-07-01
Series:Risk in Contemporary Economy
Online Access:http://www.rce.feaa.ugal.ro/images/stories/RCE2016/CarmenOpritMaftei.pdf
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spelling doaj-8b24d59afa6d4e14ba06db72c40b58df2020-11-25T02:02:33ZengDunarea de Jos University of Galati Risk in Contemporary Economy2067-05322067-05322016-07-0137578Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English AuthorsCarmen Oprit-Maftei0Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, RomaniaHedging 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). http://www.rce.feaa.ugal.ro/images/stories/RCE2016/CarmenOpritMaftei.pdf
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Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English Authors
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title_short Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English Authors
title_full Hedging - The Use of Cautious Language in Academic Research Papers Written by Non-native English Authors
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title_sort hedging - the use of cautious language in academic research papers written by non-native english authors
publisher Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
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2067-0532
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description 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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