Abstract This Critical Discourse Analysis examines hedging as a linguistic device at the intersection of scientific discourse and women’s language. Hedging has been identified marker where it is valued for expanding dialogic space promulgation knowledge. It also recognised common language, purported to align with discriminatory gender norms that women should not impose their views but could be ...

The major objective of this mixed methods research, which considered elements of both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, was to examine the effect of two different types of focus on form instruction, namely proactive and reactive across multimodal vs. traditional input settings on Iranian EFL learners' comprehension and production of modal auxiliaries. The participants of the stu...

This work determines the degree of compositionality of German particle verbs by two soft clustering approaches. We assume that the more compositional a particle verb is, the more often it appears in the same cluster with its base verb, after applying a probability threshold to establish cluster membership. As German particle verbs are difficult to approach automatically at the syntax-semantics ...

The importance of deciphering lexical knowledge, especially the eventive information encoded on verbs, has been highly recognized and various approaches have been proposed to represent lexical information that plays a crucial role in grammatical realization. In this paper, a subset of Mandarin verbs of communication —verbs of discussion—is explored in detail, with reference to the semantic prop...