id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
iberica-309	Alonso Alonso, Rosa; Alonso Alonso, María; Torrado Mariñas, Laura	Hedging: An exploratory study of pragmatic transfer in nonnative English readers' rhetorical preferences	2012-01-02	18	.pdf	application/pdf	6602	321	54	Our study seems to indicate that hedges in academic English are perceived as indicators of a negative lack of commitment by native speakers of Spanish and pragmatic transfer appears to inhibit the use of hedges that are not common to the native language. Section 2 deals with the connection between pragmatic transfer and hedging, section 3 focuses on hedging in academic English.	cache/iberica-309.pdf	txt/iberica-309.txt