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Publication details [#42790]

Koutsantoni, Dimitra. 2005. Certainty across cultures: A comparison of the degree of certainty expressed by Greek and English speaking scientific authors. Intercultural Pragmatics 2 (2) : 121–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

certainty | crosscultural context | language and culture | scientific language

Language as a subject

English | Greek

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This article explores how cultural features determine and differentiate the degree of certainty of claims expressed by native English and native Greek speaking scientific authors in research articles in the domains of electronic, electrical and chemical engineering.