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New Approaches to Hedging (Hardcover)
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New Approaches to Hedging (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Pragmatics, 9
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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a
discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force
or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic
effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased
attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies
approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such
as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific
investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague
language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of
current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a
variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different
languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative
settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic
analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What
unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based
approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are
applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows
for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone
unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and
fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the
investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive
perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality
of hedges.
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