Utterance modifiers have aroused the interest of English linguists since Lakoff coined the term 'hedge' in 1972. Far from that first semantic approach, nowadays hedges and boosters are mostly studied from a pragmatic point of view. This means that these linguistic units should not be considered as a limited set of lexical forms, but rather as a contextual phenomenon. In addition, oral discourse has also given way to written scientific discourse along this time. Despite this boom in English research, Spanish literature on this topic is extremely limited. In fact, most works on hedging written by Spanish authors merely analysed English texts. Furthermore, if they ever deal with Spanish texts, their results are usually rendered in English. Thu...
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The University of León has been engaged for several years now in a wide-reaching project on corpus-d...
This paper discusses how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research ...
Los matizadores asertivos han concitado gran atención por parte de los investigadores de lengua ingl...
The following is a study of a set of various linguistic items, from the so-called discourse particle...
The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting the...
Researchers studying communication (Barrow et al., 1989; Frey et al., 2000, among others) have propo...
p. 59-79This paper is a corpus-based contrastive study involving English and Spanish as the two work...
[ES] Resumen El presente estudio analiza las variaciones de las frecuencias y las funciones pragmáti...
The present study examined research articles from eight academic disciplines to measure the frequenc...
This article focuses on the lexical coining of the sounds in the field of science and technology in ...
This PhD dissertation deals with the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of terminological an...
Producción CientíficaGenre studies have been mainly focused on the rhetorical structure of research ...
This paper aims at analysing the role of pragmatic transfer in the use of the rhetorical strategy of...
Este trabajo investiga ciertas características del discurso académico hablado...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88139/1/Swales-Perales-Tracing.pd
The University of León has been engaged for several years now in a wide-reaching project on corpus-d...
This paper discusses how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research ...
Los matizadores asertivos han concitado gran atención por parte de los investigadores de lengua ingl...
The following is a study of a set of various linguistic items, from the so-called discourse particle...
The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting the...
Researchers studying communication (Barrow et al., 1989; Frey et al., 2000, among others) have propo...
p. 59-79This paper is a corpus-based contrastive study involving English and Spanish as the two work...
[ES] Resumen El presente estudio analiza las variaciones de las frecuencias y las funciones pragmáti...
The present study examined research articles from eight academic disciplines to measure the frequenc...
This article focuses on the lexical coining of the sounds in the field of science and technology in ...
This PhD dissertation deals with the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of terminological an...
Producción CientíficaGenre studies have been mainly focused on the rhetorical structure of research ...
This paper aims at analysing the role of pragmatic transfer in the use of the rhetorical strategy of...
Este trabajo investiga ciertas características del discurso académico hablado...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88139/1/Swales-Perales-Tracing.pd
The University of León has been engaged for several years now in a wide-reaching project on corpus-d...
This paper discusses how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research ...