Epistemic Modality in Academic Discourse in the Croatian and English Language

The present thesis is the result of a cross-cultural, genre-based study whose main objective is
to examine how writers of research articles in psychology in Croatian and English use
epistemic modality devices in hedging their claims or in evaluating other scholars’ work.
Based on the corpus of 60 research articles published in Croatian and English journals, the
study aims to establish the patt…