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Understatements and Hedges in English.
The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1983.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
4:6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the linguistic restrictions for understatements and hedges to be formed by means of the following grammatical categories: negation of predicates, gradation of predicates, modalization of affirmative sentences by means of parenthetical verbs, modal adverbs, modal verbs, and questions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (202 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192). |
| ISBN: | 9789027280336 9027280339 1283359472 9781283359474 9786613359476 6613359475 |
| ISSN: | 0166-6258 ; |