Abstract
In the article, the results of a corpus-based study of lexical hedging devices in 100 British and 100 American research article abstracts published in recent years in five leading scholarly journals in economics are presented. The study shows no statistically significant differences in the frequency of lexical hedges used by the British and American authors, suggesting that the Anglo-American academic discourse in economics is quite homogeneous as far as the abstract genre is concerned. A frequency list of lexical hedges presented in the paper can be used in EAP and ESP courses as well as in further research.
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