Hedges and textual communicative function in medical English written discourse
Open Access
- 31 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in English for Specific Purposes
- Vol. 13 (2), 149-170
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0889-4906(94)90013-2
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