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Table 11 Representation of ‘I think’, ‘in my opinion’ and ‘perhaps’ in parallel corpus

From: From explicit to implicit orientation: mapping rank scale to modality in English and Chinese

 

explicit

quasi-explicit

implicit

zero

English items

I think

44 (88%)

0 (0%)

4

2

in my opinion

42 (84%)

8(16%)

0

0

perhaps

0

0

38 (76%)

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