The use of modal auxiliaries as hedging devices in Chinese research articles / Yang Anqi

Yang , Anqi (2022) The use of modal auxiliaries as hedging devices in Chinese research articles / Yang Anqi. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya.

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Abstract

The study uses the modal auxiliaries as the principal strategy to find out its variation in Chinese research articles. The study’s goal is to provide a common view for selecting Chinese modal auxiliaries, which will serve as a reference for researchers as they work to enhance their articles. The research took six representative main modal auxiliaries of hedges in Chinese as the research objectives and researched their frequencies and distributions in 40 Chinese research articles from four different disciplines. Based on the previous studies, the research proposed and answered four research questions and analyzed the data in a comparative way. It is found that if the context is as concrete as possible, the Chinese modal auxiliaries would achieve semantic equivalence with English in academic discourse. Besides, the article summarized and discussed the scholars’ preferences about modal auxiliaries used in research articles.

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