Abstract This paper is devoted to the analysis of the use of hedging in a corpus of articles from applied linguistics, and in this sense, it is complementary to the previous research of academic persuasion in research articles (Hinkel, 1997; Hyland, 1996, 2004). This study examined the types and frequency of hedges employed by the authors of academic research articles (RAs) in the field of applied linguistics. A corpus consists of 20 research articles, randomly selected from the Open Access Journals on Educational linguistics (5 RAs), Psycholinguistics (5 RAs), Sociolinguistics (5 RAs) and Pragmatics (5 RAs) The data were manually coded according to Hyland’s taxonomy of hedges and hedging devices (Hyland, 1996) and then formatted to calculate the frequency and type of hedges in RAs on Applied Linguistics. Results of the study indicate that reader-oriented hedges constitute the main pragmatic type of hedges in RAs in the field of applied linguistics, recognizing the need for reader’s ratification of the author’s claims and politeness conventions of academic discourse per se. Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods applied to computer readable data proved that hedges in RAs on Applied Linguistics are topic dependent, showing differences in typology, frequency and distribution even within one discipline.

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套期保值在应用语言学研究论文中的应用

摘要本文致力于对应用语言学在文章语料库中使用套期保值的分析，从这个意义上说，它是对先前研究文章中的学术说服力研究的补充（Hinkel，1997; Hyland，1996，2004） ）。这项研究检查了应用语言学领域的学术研究文章（RAs）作者采用的树篱类型和频率。一个语料库由20篇研究文章组成，这些文章是从《开放式教育语言学期刊》（5 RA），《心理语言学》（5 RA），《社会语言学》（5 RA）和语用学（5 RA）中随机选择的。数据是根据Hyland的分类标准手动编码的套期保值和套期保值工具（Hyland，1996年），然后进行格式化，以计算应用语言学上的RA中套期保值的频率和类型。研究结果表明，以读者为导向的套期交易是应用语言学领域的RA中主要的实用套期交易类型，认识到读者需要批准作者的主张和学术话语本身的礼貌惯例。定性和定量方法相结合应用于计算机可读数据证明，应用语言学上的RA套期保值取决于主题，即使在一门学科内，也显示出类型，频率和分布方面的差异。