Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Features of Hedging in Scientific Discourse (by the Material of Texts of English-Language Scientific Articles on Economics)
Svetaylov Boris Vladimirovich
North-Caucasus Federal University
Submitted: 24.05.2022
Abstract. The aim of this study is to determine the linguistic and socio-cultural features of hedging in the text of an English-language scientific article on economic topics. The paper provides a definitional analysis of the notion "hedging", defines its functions in a scientific text from the position of rhetorical potential and perception of a text by recipients, and notes the pragmatic potential of hedging as an argumentation tool within the framework of scientific discourse. The scientific novelty of the study lies in a comprehensive analysis of hedging markers within the framework of economic articles, both in terms of linguistic and socio-cultural characteristics. As a result, it has been proved that hedging markers are of key importance in the text of a scientific article on economic topics, being an effective method of argumentation, interaction with a reader and obscuration of epistemic responsibility by the author.
Key words and phrases: научный дискурс, социокультурные нормы, хеджи, хеджирование, эпистемическая ответственность, scientific discourse, sociocultural norms, hedges, hedging, epistemic responsibility
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