They’re a Little Bit Different… Observations on Hedges in Academic Talk

Mauranen, Anna

doi:10.1075/pbns.120.12mau

In:Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 120] 2004
► pp. 173–197

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They’re a Little Bit Different… Observations on Hedges in Academic Talk

Anna Mauranen

Published online: 29 April 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.120.12mau

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