A corpus-based quantitative study on the interpersonal functions of hedges in Chinese and German academic discourse.

Investigated from the functional and pragmatic perspective, the previous studies revealed an obvious trend from “judging its’ truth value” to “determining its’ semantic category” and “considering its modal functions”.

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significant differences are found in the variation trends from 2010 to 2019 of 3 hedge-types ( Rounder-2 [0.01 < P∗<0.05], Plausibility-2 [0.01 < P∗<0.05], Attribution-2 [0.01 < P∗<0.05]); The differences between Adaptor-1 (p∗∗<0.01), Rounder-1 (p∗∗<0.01) and Attribution-1 (p∗∗<0.01) are considered highly significant.

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