http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).06
10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).06
Published : Mar 2020
Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study
Hedging is a pragmatic phenomenon which is practiced to signal interpersonal communication. In academic discourse, hedges are used to signal writers’ presence in a text. This article explores the use of hedges particularly with reference to epistemic and deontic modality markers—important and frequently used types of hedges-- in Pakistani research dissertations belonging to three major disciplines: Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The material is based on a special purpose corpus of Pakistani academic writing developed with 235 M.phil and PhD research theses. To find out the frequencies of modal verbs AntConc 3.5.6 was used. All the frequencies were listed and every 50th example was analysed using the theoretical distinction between epistemic and deontic modality outlined by Biber et al. (1999). Statistical analysis of the data reveals, that disciplinary affiliation has a considerable influence on the proportion of epistemic and deontic modality
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Hedging, Epistemic and deontic modality, Disciplinary variation, Pakistani Academic Writing
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(1) Musarrat Azher
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Riffat un Nisa Awan
Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Sana Nawaz
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Azher, M., Awan, R. u. N., & Nawaz, S. (2020). Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study. Global Language Review, V(I), 46-56. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).06
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CHICAGO : Azher, Musarrat, Riffat un Nisa Awan, and Sana Nawaz. 2020. "Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study." Global Language Review, V (I): 46-56 doi: 10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).06
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HARVARD : AZHER, M., AWAN, R. U. N. & NAWAZ, S. 2020. Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study. Global Language Review, V, 46-56.
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MHRA : Azher, Musarrat, Riffat un Nisa Awan, and Sana Nawaz. 2020. "Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study." Global Language Review, V: 46-56
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MLA : Azher, Musarrat, Riffat un Nisa Awan, and Sana Nawaz. "Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study." Global Language Review, V.I (2020): 46-56 Print.
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OXFORD : Azher, Musarrat, Awan, Riffat un Nisa, and Nawaz, Sana (2020), "Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study", Global Language Review, V (I), 46-56
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TURABIAN : Azher, Musarrat, Riffat un Nisa Awan, and Sana Nawaz. "Hedging as an Indicator of Disciplinary Variation in Pakistani Academic Discourse: A Corpus Based Study." Global Language Review V, no. I (2020): 46-56. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).06