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Varttala, Teppo – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
A study of 15 popular scientific journal articles and 15 specialist medical-research articles indicates that in medical discourse hedging, the expression of tentativeness and possibility by epistemic devices, can be applied in less specialized English- for-Special-Purposes (ESP) texts such as popular scientific articles, but in different…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes, Journal Articles