Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Hedges Used In Articles On Robotics
Table 2:
Hedge (with the number of word tokens) | Russia | China | USA |
can | 63 | 82 | 90 |
could | 3 | 6 | 24 |
-er | 7 | 14 | 20 |
mainly | 5 | 10 | 2 |
may | 7 | 4 | 22 |
more | 14 | 11 | 33 |
possible | 16 | 0 | 19 |
some | 7 | 24 | 17 |
should | 11 | 2 | 17 |
would | 8 | 0 | 14 |