Epistemic modality is a critical yet intricate linguistic device in academic writing. In this study,
we investigated the use of epistemic modality in 25 English-medium medical research …

Research on the use of hedging strategies in research articles has received increasing
attention during the last few decades, but few have compared the use of hedges across …

We present a pragmatic analytical framework to explore the reasons underlying the
differences in the use of modal verbs in English research articles (RAs) in three different …

Epistemic modality, an area of major importance in academic discourse, has been
increasingly an object of research over the last decades. Research related to academic …

In semantics, epistemic modality expresses writers' commitment to their propositions. In
pragmatics, epistemic modality performs interpersonal functions. To date, its politeness and …

Epistemic modality is concerned with how writers (or speakers) convey their evaluation of
possibilities and the degree of confidence in what they write (or say). This study investigates …

This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim
of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the …

Epistemic modality markers are linguistic expressions that explicitly qualify the truth value of
a proposition, by marking the informational content as either certain or uncertain. The …

Abstrakt (y) This paper discusses epistemic modal verbs as rhetorical markers of
argumentation in Ghanaian scholars' research articles (RAs) in the disciplines of Sociology …

Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and
evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold …