Contrastive Study of Hedges in English-Chinese Social Science Articles

摘要

Through self-built English and Chinese corpora, this paper tries to compare the differences and similarities of the use of hedges. With the help of SPSS and AntConc software, we can get that there are obvious differences and similarities in different scales of the two corpora. The result can be analyzed from two aspects. One is from linguistic perspective and the other one is from cultural differences. The result of the study can provide reference for thesis writing standards to reduce the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue in essay writing. Meanwhile, it makes us to have a better understanding between Chinese and western culture.