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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 Lingui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kaltenböck, Gunther (Editor ), Mihatsch, Wiltrud (Editor ), Schneider, Stefan, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Studies in pragmatics ; 9.
Temas:
Hedge (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Euphemism > Congresses.
Pragmatics > Congresses.
Enclosure (Linguistique) > Congrès.
Euphémismes > Congrès.
Pragmatique > Congrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Euphemism
Hedge (Linguistics)
Pragmatics
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • New Approaches to Hedging
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Announcement
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging
  • 2. A Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns
  • 3. Hedges in Context: Form and Function of Sort of and Kind of
  • 4. Mitigating and Being Vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse
  • 5. The Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change
  • 6. Hyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison7. Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese
  • 8. Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Platoâ€"! Gorgias
  • 9. Position and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English
  • 10. Pragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think
  • 11. Parenthetical Hedged Performatives
  • 12. On the Relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position
  • Subject Index

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