Hedges and boosters in English and Italian medical research articles: a cross-cultural comparison
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hedges and boosters in English and Italian medical research articles: a cross-cultural comparison
Original language description
Writers of academic papers generally use a wide range of strategies when they expose scientific argumentations or take a stance that can potentially threaten readers' face. Hedging and boosting devices are rhetorical devices that help authors mitigate or enhance the impact of their positions and claims on readers. This study seeks to explore the role and the frequency of hedging and boosting in scientific articles from a cross-cultural perspective. Our goal is to compare English and Italian research papers to describe hedging and boosting strategies and check whether they differ between the two languages in terms of frequencies and functions. We have collected a bilingual corpus made up of 58 medical research papers in Italian and English, investigated through quantitative and qualitative methods. Our findings demonstrate that targeting an international audience dramatically increases the frequency of the hedges, and in particular the category of reader-oriented hedges.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Language Studies
ISSN
2157-4898
e-ISSN
2157-4901
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85125461735