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English Hedging Expressions

Source: R/data.R
english_hedging.Rd

A dictionary of epistemic hedging and stance markers used to express uncertainty, probability, and epistemic commitment in English. Based on Hyland (2005) hedging taxonomy and expanded with academic and conversational hedging expressions.

Format

A data frame with 247 rows and 3 variables.

Source

Hyland (2005)

Variables

  • form. the hedging expression (e.g., "perhaps", "it seems", "arguably")

  • category. type of hedging (epistemic)

  • source. data source attribution