International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


academic field

Article Hedges vs boosters: Communicative mitigation and enhancement in the genre of dissertation review

The article presents the results of the cross-disciplinary research which focuses on the two types of discourse markers – hedges and boosters and their use in Russian official dissertation reviews. The study is based on reviews of official opponents and external reviewers of PhD theses on linguistics, literary criticism, history, physics, chemistry and medicine. The reviews were borrowed from the online pages of dissertation councils of Russian universities.