Publications

Publication details [#50116]

Thue Vold, Eva. 2006. Epistemic modality markers in research articles: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16 (1) : 61–87.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | epistemic modality | markedness | research article

Language as a subject

English | French | Norwegian

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper examines the usage of an important type of hedges, epistemic modality markers, in research articles on linguistics and medicine, written in English, French and Norwegian.