Boosting in English and Indonesian Research Articles: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Study
Boosters, defined as linguistic devices (e.g. certainly) used by writers to indicate full commitment to the truth value of a proposition, has received little attention from applied linguists, despite their persuasive power in research writing. The present study investigated the effects of the two va...
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| Language: | English |
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Bina Nusantara University
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Lingua Cultura |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.binus.ac.id/index.php/Lingua/article/view/1423 |