In academic English, hedging devices mark the writer's attitude (s) to both proposition (ie
content) and audience and are thus an important and pervasive feature in academic …

Several authors have stated that, because of the long time horizons underlying forestry
processes, the forest sector encounters far more uncertainty than is experienced by any …

Most studies on hedging in second language academic writing include data in the second
language or in both the first (L1) and the second language (L2) but not data from the same …

本研究对中外英语期刊论文库中立场副词的使用特征和语用差异进行了对比调查. 研究发现:
中国作者的立场副词使用总频数比本族语作者少三分之一; 确定性立场副词使用过多 …

Uncertainty is an unavoidable fact of every decision. In forestry, the problem of uncertainty is,
however, exacerbated by the long time horizons involved. Rotation periods for oak and …

Philosophers of science and epistemologists ask the word “belief” to cover far too much of
the cognitive landscape. When we attend to the epistemic and practical judgments that real …

本文通过自建语料库, 对比分析了中国大陆学者与英语本族语学者发表在国际期刊《 纳米技术》
上的英文科研论文中使用模糊限制语的异同. 研究显示, 中国大陆学者模糊限制语使用比例总体 …

This thesis is a mixed-method genre-based study which analyzes the Discussion section of
qualitative and quantitative research articles in the field of Applied Linguistics. It is …

The ability to use modal devices appropriately is an area of language learning apparently
impervious to naturalistic acquisition by L2 learners (Kasper & Blum‐Kulker, 1993) …

Hedging devices are important tools and have been used widely in academic and scientific
writing, but their usefulness in business writing has seldom been explored. In a business …