Expert-Like Use of Hedges and Boosters in Research Articles Written by Polish and English Native-Speaker Writers

Hryniuk, Katarzyna

doi:10.2478/rela-2018-0013

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“…Several studies have examined writer characteristics that may influence the use of hedging or boosting (e.g., [25,106]). Among the important influencing factors we can find educational level and background [54,81] as well as cultural aspects (the author's mother tongue for instance) which have been extensively studied [25,57,70,84,85,90,103,106]. To mitigate the influence of these factors, some linguists have constrained their analyses to only include papers written by native English speakers (e.g., [108]), but doing so provides only a narrow view of publication practices within the analysed domain, especially in scientific writing where papers are written for an international audience.…”

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“…Linguists often focus their analysis on specific sections of research articles such as abstracts [76,90], discussions (e.g., [14,84]), conclusions (e.g., [85,106]) or a combination of the above (e.g., [40,89]) In fact, among linguistics studies we have previously discussed, only a handful look at complete research articles [51,57,60,100,108,110,112,114] 2 . Focusing on specific sections of articles is particularly interesting since modal terms might serve different functions in different parts of a research manuscript.…”

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Definitely Maybe: Hedges And Boosters in the HCI Literature

Besançon¹,

Jansen²,

Cockburn³

et al. 2021

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Introduction: Hedges and boosters are terms respectively used to decrease and increase the strength of statements. They are therefore essential lexical tools in scientific communication, in particular in fields conducting human-subjects experiments such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).Objectives: We present an analysis of the use of hedges and boosters in the proceedings of the main HCI conference, namely CHI, between 2010 and 2018 to better understand how CHI authors report empirical findings.Methods: We only considered papers reporting a user study and focused our analysis on the sentences in the abstract that describe empirical results. We used a program to detect boosters and hedges and manually adjusted their classifications.Results: We found that CHI studies reporting inferential statistics are more likely to boost than they hedge. Conclusion: Our work intends to raise awareness within the HCI community of the importance of hedging and boosting when reporting research results. Further, our results establish a baseline of the current use of these linguistic devices in HCI, adding to the current body of linguistic research. We finally contribute tools, procedures, and materials to facilitate future analyses of hedges and boosters in scientific communication. Reproducibility: All data and scripts are available on https://osf.io/kefmr/

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Definitely Maybe: Hedges And Boosters in the HCI Literature

Besançon¹,

Jansen²,

Cockburn³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…It is widely acknowledged that a written text is an interaction between the writer and the expected audience/reader (Hyland, 1994;Nkemleke, 2011;Schmied, 2012;Varsanis, 2020). In such an interaction, the role of readers is very crucial since the writer has to engage with them and anticipate their "background knowledge, processing problems and reactions to the text" (Hyland, 1994:239).…”

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“…The scientificity of a piece of writing is thus, conditioned by a number of factors. Some of these factors which are stressed upon by specialists such as , Whitaker (2009), Bailey (2018)) and Varsanis (2020) include the importance of clarity, precision and concision, the imperative of good punctuation, sentence structure and paragraphing, and amongst all, the inevitable pursuit of cautious, tentative and non-face threatening language. Bearing this in mind, students and researchers have to write in accordance with these academic conventions for their write-up to be regarded as scientific.…”

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Disciplinary and Move Analyses of Hedging in Abstracts of DIPES II Dissertations of the Higher Teachers’ Training college of Maroua

Demanou

Tabe

2022

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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This paper examines hedging as a rhetorical resource employed by fifth year (DIPES II) students of the Higher Teacher Training College of Maroua in Cameroon to show politeness, respect, humility and tentativeness in presenting their arguments or stating facts and subjective opinions. A specialized corpus of 46.368 tokens was used and hedges were retrieved using AntConc 3.4.4. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The analysis shows that there is generally an unsatisfactory representation of hedges in the abstracts. The findings further reveal that markers of intentional vagueness, accuracy hedges and writer-oriented hedges are the most common hedging strategies. Students seemingly rely on relatively simpler types of hedging like some, few, may, could, a number of. Conversely, more complicated constructions such as it appears that, it is possible that seem virtually inexistent. Students in the Department of Bilingual Letters were found to be more tentative than their counterparts of other disciplines. It is equally observed that more hedging strategies are used in stating research findings than in any other communicative purpose of the abstracts. In substance, the innovation in this paper may lie on its artful combination of disciplinary investigation with move analysis of hedging in a seemingly ‘marginalized’ academic genre, and its exclusive focus on novice writing in a non-native professional academic institution. This has led to the conclusion that the use of hedging can now be regarded as not only discipline-specific but also move-specific.

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“…Many researchers have not studied studies of boosters expressions in speech acts context. Previous study related to booster expression is still limited to cross-cultural variation in the use of hedges and boosters in academic discourse (Dontcheva Navratilova, 2013;Salichah, Irawati, & Basthomi, 2015;Demir, 2017;Farnia & Mohammadi, 2018), promotional brochue (Ilham, Bulkani, & Darlan, 2018), research article (Sanjaya, 2013;Takimoto, 2015;Hryniuk , 2018;Aull, 2019) critical discourse analysis of in election debates of presidential candidates (Elhambakhsh & Masoome, 2015), patterns of metadiscourse (Kondowe, 2014;Hyland & Jiang, 2018), English newspaper editorial (Zarza, 2018;Al-Ghoweri & Al Kayed, 2019;Ahmad, Mahmood, Mahmood, & Siddique, 2019), gender (Shrivastava, 2016;Shakirova & Safina, 2019), and translation studies (Herriman, 2014;Martikainen, 2018;Ilham, Nababan, Kristina, & Wiratno, 2018). However, those studies focused on the use of boosters in academic discourse, direct communication, newspaper articles, gender, and do not yet discuss booster expression employed in speech act at literary works.…”

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The Analysis of Booster Expression in Complaining Speech Act

Wang¹,

Nababan²,

Kristina³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

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Complaint speech act is part of expressive speech acts. However, these potentially threaten the face of the hearer. The speaker will use boosters expression in complaining strategy to express their emotion. Boosters expression as a linguistic marker is not only appeared in real life communication but also literary works. The issues are cultural differences and each language may have an effect of using it. Thus it raises a question of how booster expression used in complaining speech acts as a strategy to communicate between speaker and hearer in the novel. This paper aims to explore boosters expression in complaining speech acts used by the characters in the novel The A.B.C Murders written by Agatha Christie (1936). Data were the utterance made by the characters in the novel The A.B.C Murder. Data were taken by document analysis in classifying boosters expression in complaining speech acts. The results show that 1) there are fifteen characters used boosters expression in employing complaint speech acts, 2) Boosters' expression form used by the characters in employing complaint speech acts are adjunct, comment adjunct, intrinsic booster, and fixed expression.

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Expert-Like Use of Hedges and Boosters in Research Articles Written by Polish and English Native-Speaker Writers

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Definitely Maybe: Hedges And Boosters in the HCI Literature

Definitely Maybe: Hedges And Boosters in the HCI Literature

Disciplinary and Move Analyses of Hedging in Abstracts of DIPES II Dissertations of the Higher Teachers’ Training college of Maroua

The Analysis of Booster Expression in Complaining Speech Act

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