The rise of promotional rhetoric in the Discussion Sections of an interdisciplinary field: a diachronic perspective.

Front Psychol · 2025 · PMC12709932 · PMID 41415335

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However, the changing pattern observed in our study diverges from previous literature, where the use of hedges, boosters, and attitude markers in the Discussion sections of Applied Linguistics articles showed a decreasing trend ( Rezaei et al., 2021 ), or fluctuations in the case of boosters ( Xie et al., 2024 ).

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