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Hedge which is identified as one of the most important branches of vagueness plays an indispensable role in academic writings, functioning as an effective tool in cushioning the danger of being too exact and accurate so as to create a harmonious “writer-reader-content” academic environment. This paper tries to look into epistemic verbs hedges by contrastively analyzing the use of hedges in two self-built corpora comprising 100 English Economic and Management Articles, of which 50 are written by Chinese authors and another 50 by English native authors, finding that there exists striking difference in the distribution of this kind of hedges, thus the paper may provide some hints to the pedagogic improvement of English and to further study.
Hedge which is identified as one of the most important branches of vagueness plays an indispensable role in academic writings, functioning as an effective tool in cushioning the danger of being too exact and accurate so as to create a harmonious “writer-reader-content ”academic environment. This paper tries to look into epistemic verbs hedges by contrastively analyzing the use of hedges in two self-built corpora including 100 English Economic and Management Articles, of which 50 are written by Chinese authors and another 50 by English native authors, finding that there exists striking difference in the distribution of this kind of hedges, thus the paper may provide some hints to the pedagogic improvement of English and to further study.