Hedging in Iranian English language teachers’ spoken language: Any differential effect for gender?
Despite the importance attached in the literature to the use of hedges, the study of hedging has been shown to target, mainly, the written corpora of various types and so remains neglected in naturally occurring speech. Moreover, the existing discussion predominantly encompass cross-cultural variati...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-08-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0016 |