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Our research examines the use of three stance adverbs of certainty ( and ) across B1, B2 and C1 levels in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus (TLC). Particularly, we examined the occurrence of these adverbs in the subset of Spanish L1 speakers from Mexico and Spain. and were found to display a distinctive frequency of use across different proficiency levels and the different speaking tasks analysed. Dialogic tasks favoured a more frequent use of and , while was hardly used. Qualitative analyses of the pragmatic functions of and revealed that there is an increase in the use of meanings to express hedging in and factualness in across the proficiency levels. Our research confirms the finding in Gablasova et al. (2017) that the type of speaking task conditions speakers’ repertoire of linguistic devices, although we argue that this conditioning operates on different levels.

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Certainty adverbs in spoken learner language
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Keyword(s): hedging; Spanish EFL learners; stance adverbs; task effect

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