Academic writers resort to hedging as one of the interpersonal metadiscourse categories
needed to present their findings cautiously in the hope that their research contribution can …

As an interpersonal meta-discourse device, hedges have a significant role in academic
writing, especially in research articles (RAs) of various fields. The use of hedges in …

The purpose of this corpus-based study is to compare the use of hedges and associated
linguistic constituents in the linguistic research articles authored by Pakistani English Writers …

The present study aimed at investigating gender identity through the expression of
interpersonal metadiscourse stance marking. The current study investigated male and …

The present study compared and contrasted the frequency of use of hedging devices used
in the research articles of three fields of Humanities, Basic Sciences and Agriculture and …

This paper works within the frame work of EF Prince, J. Frader& C. Bosk theory (1982) and
employs qualitative and quantitative methods. It analyzes President Masoud Barzani's …

The ways in which researchers present the results of their research and make claims about
them are determined by the conventions of academic writing held by the scientific …

The present study aims at investigating the impact of gender and being native and non-
native on the use of hedging devices in the discussion part of Applied Linguistics research …

Abstract Language, discourse and communication reveal social and cultural inclinations of
human civilization (Van Dijk, 1997). Language behavior is exhibited through communication …

The present genre-driven study aims at comparing Moves and Sub-moves deployed by
Iranian and English medical writers while writing their research articles in English. To obtain …