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Epistemic modality and spoken discourse
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This article is published in Transactions of the Philological Society.The article was published on 1987-11-01. It has received 172 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alethic modality & Epistemic modality.read more
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Hedging in academic writing and EAF textbooks
TL;DR: The authors discusses the importance, functions, and expression of epistemic modality in scientific discourse in order to evaluate the treatment given to hedging devices in a range of EAP and EST writing textbooks.
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Qualification and Certainty in L1 and L2 Students' Writing
Ken Hyland,John Milton +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared the expression of doubt and certainty in the examination scripts of 900 Cantonese speaking school leavers writing in English with those of 770 British learners of similar age and educational level, and found that these L2 writers differ significantly from the NSs in relying on a more limited range of items, offering stronger commitments, and exhibiting greater problems in conveying a precise degree of certainty.
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Reasoning in Conversation
TL;DR: In this paper, arguing and reasoning in understanding historical topics are discussed. But they do not consider the relationship between historical topics and the present day world, and they focus on historical topics.
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Talking to the Academy: Forms of Hedging in Science Research Articles.
TL;DR: Hedging refers to linguistic strategies that qualify categorical commitment to express possibility rather than certainty as discussed by the authors, and it is central to effective argument: hedging is a powerful argument in scientific writing.
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Functions of you know in women's and men's speech
TL;DR: The authors describe a range of forms and functions expressed by You Knowles, as well as its use by women and men in a corpus of spontaneous speech, and discuss the possibility that negative stereotypes may distort perceptions of women's usage.