Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. On Hedging and Hedges 1
6. Towards a context of scientific hedging 13
7. Perspective and hedging in discourse 38
8. Theoretical and Methodological considerations 81
9. Surface features of hedging 102
10. A pragmatic analysis of hedging 156
11. Examining hedges in scientific discourse 189
12. Hedging and second language learners 217
13. Conclusions and Implications 244
14. Notes 265
15. Appendix: corpus of journal articles 267
16. References 271
17. Index 304