Publications
Publication details [#41518]
Hyland, ken. 2000. Hedges, Boosters and Lexical Invisibility: Noticing Modifiers in Academic Texts. Language Awareness 9 (4) : 179–197. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article investigates the hypothesis that writers' use of hedges and boosters may actually stay unnoticed by second language readers, a phenomenon referred to by Low (1996) as the 'Lexical Invisibility Hypothesis'.