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Interpersonal Engagement in Academic Spoken Discourse: A Functional Account of Dissertation Defenses
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Recski, Leonardo – English for Specific Purposes, 2005
Whereas former research on academic discourse has paid a great deal of attention to writing and its hedging strategies, this paper aims to show that a complementary and equally important feature of academic spoken discourse is the use of modal certainty. An examination of modal selections in two American Dissertation Defenses additionally reveals…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes, Doctoral Dissertations, Rhetoric