Hedging and Discourse : Approaches to the Analysis of a Pragmatic Phenomenon in Academic Texts.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1997.
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Colección: | Research in text theory.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; I. Introduction; Hedging: A Challenge for Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; II. Hedging Strategies in Academic Discourse; Hedging Strategies in Written Academic Discourse: Strengthening the Argument by Weakening the Claim; How to Tell the Truth in The British Medical Journal: Patterns of Judgement in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Hedging in Russian Academic Writing in Sociological Texts; III. Interactive Aspects of Hedging; Hedges and Readers: Effects on Attitudes and Learning; Hedging in Language Revisers' Hands; Hedging in Expert-Language Reviews.
- IV. Cross-cultural Aspects of HedgingOn the Writing of Science and the Science of Writing: Hedging in Science Text and Elsewhere; Impersonalization as a Form of Hedging; Interlanguage View on Hedging; Some Observations on Hedging Phenomena and Modifying Devices as Regional Markers in the Speech of Young East Germans; V. Hedging: The Concept, its Origins and a Bibliographical Guide; The Concept of Hedging: Origins, Approaches and Definitions; Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging; Name Index; Subject Index.