Indirectness Features in Argumentative Essays of Costa Rican EFL University Students

This study aimed to determine the frequency of occurrence of a set of indirectness features in argumentative essays. A taxonomy of indirectness features developed by Hinkel (1997) was employed to classify the features under scrutiny into rhetorical, lexical/referential, and syntactic. The study fol...

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Main Authors: José Miguel Vargas Vásquez, Randolph Zúñiga Coudin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Costa Rica 2018-01-01
Series:Revista de Lenguas Modernas
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Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/32104