Hedging in academic texts written by Chinese students in Chinese, English and Portuguese
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Hedging, Academic writing, Chinese, English, Portuguese.Abstract
This paper deals with the use of hedging strategies in academic writing, which are considered a linguistic act to intensify or reduce the illocutionary force of scientific statements. The study aims to analyze different types of hedging used in Chinese students’ bachelor degree theses in three different languages (Chinese, English and Portuguese). The result shows that both text moves and languages in writing may influence hedging strategies, however, differently for a given hedging category.Downloads
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