Exploration of Modals as a Hedging Device in the Academic Text Written by International Postgraduate Students: A Multiple Case Study
This paper aims to investigate how international postgraduate students use modals as hedges in academic writing in comparison with native writers and what factors may affect their use of those modals. For these purposes, native writers’ and non-native writers’ corpora were compiled by collecting...
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| Format: | Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50239/ |