The term "hedging" was introduced by G. Lakoss at the beginning of the 1970s and since then has provided a starting point for theoretical and empirical studies, especially in pragmatics. This volume reviews the present state of research in the area and contains studies of hedging strategies in English, German, Finnish and Russian, using academic text-types as exemplar.This volume reviews the present state of research in the area and contains studies of hedging strategies in English, German, Finnish and Russian, using academic text-types as exemplar.
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"If you hedge against something unpleasant or unwanted that might affect you, you do something which will protect you from it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generic verb form, language revisers, communicative uncertainty, implicit modifiers, hedging research, explicit personal reference, halves location, hedged performatives, hedge groups, social studies passage, hedging expressions, metalinguistic operators, hedge variables, deontic necessity, written academic discourse, annual business reports, vague group, interlanguage pragmatics, modality markers, hedging effect, hedging function, science passage, hedging devices, positive attitude changes, peripheral ideas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Vande Kopple, Peter Lang, John Benjamins, Newbury Park, Walter de Gruyter, Cross-cultural Aspects of Hedging, Academic Press, New Zealand, Oxford University Press, English Finnish, Linguistische Berichte, Linguistische Studien, Mouton de Gruyter, New Jersey, University of Southern California, Department of English, Die Partikeln, Esther Williams, Interlanguage View, Los Angeles, Principles of Pragmatics, Betty Lou, College English New!
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"If you hedge against something unpleasant or unwanted that might affect you, you do something which will protect you from it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generic verb form, language revisers, communicative uncertainty, implicit modifiers, hedging research, explicit personal reference, halves location, hedged performatives, hedge groups, social studies passage, hedging expressions, metalinguistic operators, hedge variables, deontic necessity, written academic discourse, annual business reports, vague group, interlanguage pragmatics, modality markers, hedging effect, hedging function, science passage, hedging devices, positive attitude changes, peripheral ideas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Vande Kopple, Peter Lang, John Benjamins, Newbury Park, Walter de Gruyter, Cross-cultural Aspects of Hedging, Academic Press, New Zealand, Oxford University Press, English Finnish, Linguistische Berichte, Linguistische Studien, Mouton de Gruyter, New Jersey, University of Southern California, Department of English, Die Partikeln, Esther Williams, Interlanguage View, Los Angeles, Principles of Pragmatics, Betty Lou, College English New!
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- The Writing Scholar: Studies in Academic Discourse by Walter Nash on 8 pages
- Mood and Modality (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by F. R. Palmer on 5 pages
- Principles of Pragmatics (Longman Linguistics Library) by Geoffrey Leech on 4 pages
- A Dictionary of Stylistics, Second Edition by Katie Wales on 4 pages
- Universals of Language by Joseph H. Greenberg on page 79, page 247, and page 270
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- The Pragmatics of Irish English (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 164) (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs) by Klaus P. Schneider Anne Barron on page 197, page 198, and page 364
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