The use of modal auxiliaries as hedging devices in Chinese research articles / Yang Anqi
The study uses the modal auxiliaries as the principal strategy to find out its variation in Chinese research articles. The study’s goal is to provide a common view for selecting Chinese modal auxiliaries, which will serve as a reference for researchers as they work to enhance their articles. The res...
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15578/1/Yang_Anqi.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15578/2/Yang_Anqi.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15578/ |
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| Summary: | The study uses the modal auxiliaries as the principal strategy to find out its variation in Chinese research articles. The study’s goal is to provide a common view for selecting Chinese modal auxiliaries, which will serve as a reference for researchers as they work to enhance their articles. The research took six
representative main modal auxiliaries of hedges in Chinese as the research
objectives and researched their frequencies and distributions in 40 Chinese
research articles from four different disciplines. Based on the previous studies,
the research proposed and answered four research questions and analyzed the data
in a comparative way. It is found that if the context is as concrete as possible, the
Chinese modal auxiliaries would achieve semantic equivalence with English in
academic discourse. Besides, the article summarized and discussed the
scholars’ preferences about modal auxiliaries used in research articles.
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