?... and our study might therefore have been slightly underpowered?: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Hedging in English and Czech Medical Research Articles.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

?... and our study might therefore have been slightly underpowered?: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Hedging in English and Czech Medical Research Articles.

Original language description

Attenuating devices are frequently employed in both spoken and written language to weaken the illocutionary force of utterances as well as their directness. In this way, they are associated with expressing linguistic politeness. In scientific discourse, hedges are largely used to express negative politeness since the authors aim to protect themselves against disapproving or critical remarks of text recipients. Linguistically, hedging devices are realised in various ways, e.g. as modal adverbs (possibly, perhaps, probably,?), modal adjectives (possible, (un)likely, probable,...), modal nouns (assumption, possibility, suggestion,?), modal verbs expressing possibility (might, could, would,?), epistemic verbs (assume, seem, appear, suggest,?), approximators such as approximately and roughly, etc. The aim of this paper is to analyse hedging devices in written academic discourse, in particular in English and Czech medical research papers published in medical journals with an impact factor, and compare them with respect to their types, occurrence and communicative functions they perform. In other words, to find out whether the pragmatics of hedging is or is not culture-specific. Hedging devices may be classified from various points of view. In this paper a modified version of Hyland?s taxonomy (1998) was adopted.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica

ISSN

0567-8269

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

115-130

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