The means by which writers present a proposition as an opinion in English research articles

• Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, S. Akkakoson, Henry Bating, Norazah Mohd Suki, Chow T. Soon, Nur Shafiekah Sapan
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: IJLLL 2019
• Subjects: LC Special aspects of education; PE English language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29970/1/Survival%20strategies%20of%20Indonesian%20immigrants%20in%20Kota%20Kinabalu%2C%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29970/2/Survival%20strategies%20of%20Indonesian%20immigrants%20in%20Kota%20Kinabalu%2C%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29970/; http://www.ijlll.org/vol5/212-AJ3007.pdf; http://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2019.5.2.212

The present study is a part of an ongoing research. It is both qualitative and quantitative and it aims to contribute to an understanding of how hedging devices and strategies are exploited throughout the sampled English research articles. The corpus of the present study is made up of the discussion...