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Publication details [#27070]

Low, Graham. 1996. Intensifiers and hedges in questionnaire items and the lexical invisibility hypothesis. Applied Linguistics 17 (1) : 1–37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hedge | intensifier | question, processing of

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper examines the Lexical Invisibility Hypothesis which holds that questionnaire respondents usually do not notice extreme intensifiers and hedges and thus do not respond to them. The hypothesis is tested in a think-aloud survey among York undergraduate students in 1993.