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TL;DR: This article explored how this discursive practice is mediated by metadiscourse, how limitations are rhetorically contextualized and how much these rhetorical investments differ between PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics and found that PhD dissertation writers make more use of frame markers but less use of code glosses, evidentials, and hedges in the acknowledgment of limitations than published writers do in limitations steps.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present an interdisciplinary analysis of the power of swearing, drawing on insights from cognitive studies, pragmatics, communication, neuropsychology, and biophysiology.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the use of six Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features (ag, ja, mos, né, nogal, and sommer) in South African English, with a view to exploring their meanings, frequencies, syntactic positioning, syntactical distribution, collocational patterns, and discourse pragmatic functions.

TL;DR: The idea that human language evolved to modify/change the beliefs and attitudes of other people, in order to make them act in a certain way, is also explored in this paper .

TL;DR: This paper examined linguistic expressions of knowledge emotions found in a corpus of 640 research articles sampled from four disciplines (i.e., Applied Linguistics, Biology, History, and Mechanical Engineering) to understand how these expressions partake in knowledge construction.