title: Lexical realizations of hedging: A cross-disciplinary study of research article abstracts by Russian authors
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metadata.value: Boginskaya, Olga A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-10T11:53:52Z
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metadata.value: 2023-10-10T11:53:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Boginskaya O. A. Lexical realizations of hedging: A cross-disciplinary study of research article abstracts by Russian authors. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (2): 380–396. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.211
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.211
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44189
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metadata.value: Currently, when the English language has established itself as a lingua franca in academic settings,
  it is relevant to investigate rhetorical strategies in texts produced by L2 writers who use
  English in their academic prose. This paper explores lexical patterns of hedging in Englishmedium
  research article abstracts written by L2 (Russian) writers from two fields representing
  hard sciences and humanities — engineering and linguistics. The main focus is on quantitative
  and qualitative variations in the lexical realizations of hedging as a metadiscourse strategy
  used to present research results and enter into a dialogue with the reader. The corpus comprises
  312 engineering and linguistics research article abstracts taken equally from six Russian
  linguistic and engineering journals. In order to investigate hedging devices and their lexical
  categories, this study adopted the methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results
  of the quantitative analysis show that there are many differences in the distribution of lexical
  patterns of hedging in the two sub-corpora. In the engineering abstracts, hedging was most
  frequently realized through modal auxiliaries and adverbs of frequency. In the linguistics subcorpus,
  probability nouns and reporting verbs were among the most frequent lexical patterns
  of hedging. In the linguistics abstracts, hedging was realized through a greater variety of lexical
  categories. This suggests that lexical realizations of hedging seem to be influenced by the
  discipline rather than generic conventions.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: academic discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: research article abstract
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hedging
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metadata.value: metadiscourse
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Lexical realizations of hedging: A cross-disciplinary study of research article abstracts by Russian authors
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metadata.value: Article
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