Hedging in Academic Writing - A Pedagogically-Motivated Qualitative Study

• Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Miin, Jason Hwa Lim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: LG Individual institutions - Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean islands, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands; PE English language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21421/1/Hedging%20in%20Academic%20Writing%20-%20A%20Pedagogically-Motivated%20Qualitative%20Study.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21421/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.200

The present study explores the use of hedges in academic writing based on Hyland's (1996) pragmatic framework of hedging orientations. It also elicits insight from specialist informants on the use of hedges in academic writing. The corpus comprises thirty randomly-selected research article disc...