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标题：Hedging in Academic Writing - A Pedagogically-Motivated Qualitative Study
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作者：Loi Chek Kim ; Loi Chek Kim ; Jason Miin-Hwa Lim 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2015
卷号：197
页码：600-607
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.200
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThe present study explores the use of hedges in academic writing based on Hyland's (1996) pragmatic framework of hedging orientations. It also elicits insight from specialist informants on the use of hedges in academic writing. The corpus comprises thirty randomly-selected research article discussions (published between 2010-2014) from the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. The analysis reveals that a repertoire of lexical signals and hedging strategies have been used to realize the different hedging orientations employed in the corpus. Informants stated that second language learners’ inability to use hedges in their academic prose could be due to socio-cultural factor, classroom instruction, disciplinary culture and disciplinary appeals. The present study has pedagogical implications.
关键词：Hedging;academic writing;pedagogical implication;linguistic knowledge;pragmatic competence