Exploration of Modals as a Hedging Device in the
Academic Text Written by International
Postgraduate Students: A Multiple Case Study

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nego, Yuichiro
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50239/

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