This paper focuses on the variation of sentence connectors in academic English and, more
specifically, on the issue of whether language use can change depending on the linguistic …

This study intends to explore what stylistic features characterize scientific English and make
it different from any other language used in any other discipline. What are certain areas of …

As a communicative strategy, hedging plays a central role in academic writing. Numerous
different linguistic forms can be used to express this strategy. This article attempts to …

English academic writing has some specific characteristics that have been broadly defined
by researchers. Nevertheless, English is undergoing constant modification as a result of …

Learning a new language offers a unique opportunity to discover other cultures as well as
one's own. This discovery process is essential for developing 21st-century intercultural …

Academic Writing and Reader Engagement offers a concise linguistic description of the use
and functions of questions in English, French and Spanish and discusses their value to the …

The strength with which a statement is made can have a significant impact on the audience.
For example, international relations can be strained by how the media in one country …

Understanding the ways in which participants in public discussions frame their arguments is
important in understanding how public opinion is formed. In this paper, we adopt the position …

Although research on evaluation in academic writing has profited from developments in
contrastive linguistics since the late 1980s, very little empirical research has been conducted …

Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing typically
focuses on direct questions. Such questions are signalled by question marks and are …