HEDGING DEVICES IN LITERARY CRITICISM RESEARCH ARTICLES
HEDGING DEVICES IN LITERARY CRITICISM RESEARCH ARTICLES

Author(s): Martina Malášková
Subject(s): Language studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: academic discourse; research article; hedges; metadiscourse;
Summary/Abstract: The research of hedging has received a considerable amount of attention in recent years. This phenomenon has been surveyed from many different points of view and its importance has thus been sufficiently proven. There are, however, still areas that have been neglected so far. One of them is the field of literary criticism. This paper presents the results of a small scale study focusing on the occurrence of hedges in literary criticism research articles (RA). The results of the research show that various types of hedges can be found in the above mentioned type of RAs and indicate that further research of this field may fruitfully contribute to our understanding of the concept of hedging.

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