A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEDGING AND BOOSTING DEVICES IN WRITTEN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Keywords:
Key words: boosters, hedges, written discourse, academic discourse, academic writing,Abstract
Abstract
Hedging and boosting strategies are very essential part of written academic
discourse to express writer’s politeness, uncerainty or persuasion. The research argues
that hedging and boosting devices are employed frequently for different purposes like
expressing caution, epistemic uncertainty or presenting arguments with greater
certainty and authority. This study investigates the use of hedging and boosting devices
in academic discourse in order to identify their linguistic features, pragmatic functions,
and frequency of usage.
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