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Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English- and Chinese-medium journals
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- Authors
- Hu, G., & Cao, F.
- Venue
- Journal of Pragmatics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2795-2809
- ISSN
- 0378-2166 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2062831729
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 87
- FWCI
- 177.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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