Metadiscourse signals and "hedging" in academic writing

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Vicente López Folgado

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The main questions I will examine in this paper is first the reasons why certain linguistic forms which I gather under the label ‘metadiscourse cues’ happen to come up with relatively frequency in academic reseach articles, and secondly the overall meaning they convey in discourse. A short corpus of ten research articles supply us with enough number of occurrences of such ‘metadiscourse cues’ to undertake a discussion of the role they play in academic writing. Further, I draw distinctive features of the phenomena involved while attempting a rough classification of them. Lastly, I tackle the probfem of assessing the pragmatic value they seem to bear for the reader’s interpretation.

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López Folgado, V. (1999). Metadiscourse signals and "hedging" in academic writing. Alfinge. Revista De Filología, 11(11), 79–100. https://doi.org/10.21071/arf.v11i11.7738
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