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boosters

Description: Rhetorical devices that strengthen a writer’s commitment to a claim or increase its perceived certainty, studied in discourse analysis.
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Women, men and politeness . By Janet Holmes. (Real language series.) London: Longman, 1995. Pp viii, 254.
1997 · Alice F. Freed · Language · 1,006
Implementation Intention and Action Planning Interventions in Health Contexts: State of the Research and Proposals for the Way Forward
2013 · Martin S. Hagger, Aleksandra Luszczynska · Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being · 583
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Boosting, hedging and the negotiation of academic knowledge
1998 · KEN HYLAND · Text and Talk · 547
Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English- and Chinese-medium journals
2011 · Guangwei Hu, Feng Cao · Journal of Pragmatics · 409
Interactional metadiscourse in research article abstracts
2010 · Paul Gillaerts, Freek Van de Velde · Journal of English for Academic Purposes · 304
Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices
2001 · Sima Sengupta · English for Specific Purposes · 299
Commitment and detachment in English and Bulgarian academic writing
2001 · Irena Vassileva · English for Specific Purposes · 265
Interactions in L1 and L2 undergraduate student writing: Interactional metadiscourse in successful and less-successful argumentative essays
2016 · Joseph J. Lee, Lydia Deakin · Journal of Second Language Writing · 220
Hedges, Boosters and Lexical Invisibility: Noticing Modifiers in Academic Texts
2000 · Ken Hyland · Language Awareness · 217
Disciplinary and paradigmatic influences on interactional metadiscourse in research articles
2015 · Guangwei Hu, Feng Cao · English for Specific Purposes · 201
Explosive properties of 1-hydroxybenzotriazoles
2005 · K.D. Wehrstedt, P.A. Wandrey, et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 174
Teaching L2 Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice
2015 · Eunjeong Park · English for Specific Purposes · 160
A pragmatic approach to the macro-structure and metadiscoursal features of research article introductions in the field of Agricultural Sciences
2011 · M. Milagros del Saz Rubio · English for Specific Purposes · 157
Corpus and Sociolinguistics
2010 · Bróna Murphy · Studies in corpus linguistics · 120
CEPC Conceptual Design Report: Volume 1 - Accelerator
2018 · The CEPC Study Group · arXiv (Cornell University) · 110
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Deformation behaviors of thin-walled tube in rotary draw bending under push assistant loading conditions
2009 · H. Li, H. Yang, et al. · Journal of Materials Processing Technology · 85
Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses
2021 · Bin Wu, Brian Paltridge · Lingua · 84
Ultrasonic system and ultrasonic metal welding performance: A status review
2022 · X.M. Cheng, K. Yang, et al. · Journal of Manufacturing Processes · 83
Comparing perspectives on L2 writing: Multiple analyses of a common corpus
2014 · Jeff Connor-Linton, Charlene Polio · Journal of Second Language Writing · 78
A cross-disciplinary comparison of boosting in research articles
2006 · Matthew Peacock · Corpora · 74
Epistemic stance and the construction of knowledge in science writing: A diachronic corpus study
2019 · Robert Poole, Andrew Gnann, et al. · Journal of English for Academic Purposes · 70
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Textual voice elements and voice strength in EFL argumentative writing
2017 · Hyung-Jo Yoon · Assessing Writing · 70
A Corpus-based Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in English Academic Articles
2015 · Masahiro Takimoto · Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics · 70
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Metadiscourse Use in Thesis Abstracts: A Cross-cultural Study
2014 · Neslihan Onder Ozdemir, Bernadette Longo · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 70
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Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts
2021 · Sharif Alghazo, Mohd Nour Al Salem, et al. · System · 61
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