HEDGING THROUGH THE USE OF MODAL AUXILIARIES IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
As a communicative strategy, hedging plays a central role in academic writing. Numerous different linguistic forms can be used to express this strategy. This article attempts to investigate modal auxiliary verbs as the principal means of expressing hedging in English academic discourse. For this pur...
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Main Author: | Hardjanto, Tofan Dwi (Author) |
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Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada,
2016-05-28.
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