Month: March 2023
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Critical Review: “Hedging in the Results and Discussion Section of English Applied Linguistics Research Articles by Vietnamese and Foreign Writers” (Tran & Tang, 2022)
Academic writing is a genre that requires the impersonal presentation of facts, showing evidence and constructing knowledge objectively and effectively (Hyland, 1994). This notion has positioned hedging as a vital part of academic discourse. The starting point of hedges as a linguistic term is normally attributed to the work of Lakoff (1973), associating hedges with “fuzziness” or…
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