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Publication details [#54895]

Hu, Guangwei and Feng Cao. 2011. Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English- and Chinese-medium journals. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (11) : 2795–2809.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applied linguistics | hedge | language and culture | research article | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparative study explores the use of hedges and boosters in academic article abstracts, collected from 8 Chinese- and English-medium journals of applied linguistics.