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New Approaches to Hedging.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Pragmatics SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (324 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004253247
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Approaches to HedgingLOC classification:
  • P325.5.E94 -- .N49 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Comparison -- 7. Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese -- 8. Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato's 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.
Summary: 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. This title provides an overview of research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields.
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Intro -- 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 Comparison -- 7. Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese -- 8. Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato's 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.

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. This title provides an overview of research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields.

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