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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 360–380PDF of A corpus-assisted study of evidential stance in selected Nigerian newspaper editorials

   A corpus-assisted study of evidential stance in selected Nigerian newspaper editorials

   Ayobami Adetoro AFOLABI and Paul Ayodele ONANUGA

   Hyland’s (2005) model of evidential stance, which categorises evidential stance into hedges and boosters. The results reveal that evidential stance has 161,432 instances, out of which hedges take … while boosters take only 66,572. The results also revealed that the linguistic categories used to express evidential stance in the editorials include: stance complement clauses controlled by adverbs, adjectives