A Comparative Study of Boosting in Academic Texts: A Contrastive Rhetoric

Volume: 5, Issue: 4
Published: Jul 31, 2015
Abstract
Boosting, an authorial commitment, and hedging, a authorial mitigating, are two issues interconnected one another with a gaining importance in the last decades (for detail see Gillaerts & Velde, 2010). However, boosting has remained as an issue needing to be studied from different aspects; for instance, cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural or comparative while hedging gains a great deal of attention from researchers. The purpose...
Paper Details
Title
A Comparative Study of Boosting in Academic Texts: A Contrastive Rhetoric
Published Date
Jul 31, 2015
Volume
5
Issue
4
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