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T1  - "IT SEEMS PLAUSIBLE TO MAINTAIN THAT ..." : CLUSTERS OF EPISTEMIC STANCE EXPRESSIONS IN WRITTEN ACADEMIC ELF TEXTS 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311305 
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A1  - Shchemeleva, Irina 
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Y1  - 2019 
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AB  - Nowadays, when English has firmly established itself as a lingua franca (ELF) in academic settings, it is very important to study the features of texts written by L2 speakers who come from a variety of cultural and Ll backgrounds and who use ELF in their academic communication. The present study focuses on clusters of epistemic stance expressions used in research articles in social sciences and humanities written by L2 speakers. The analysis of twenty papers from the SciELF corpus reveals the pa... 
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KW  - English as a lingua franca; epistemic stance; academic writing; ENGLISH; MODALITY; MARKERS; 6121 Languages 
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