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Peer reviewedThomas, Sarah; Hawes, Thomas P. – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
Reporting verbs used in reporting statements, or citation, in medical journal articles are described, and their role in the discourse is examined. Choice among Discourse Verbs, Real-Word Verbs, and Cognition Verbs correlates with the rhetorical function of the report; e.g, Cognition Verbs correlate with reports of consensus views of the scientific…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSalager-Meyer, Francoise – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
A corpus of 15 articles from 5 leading medical journals was used to examine how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research papers and case reports in medical English written discourse influences the frequency and category distribution of the modulation devices (hedges) used in each section. (57 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
