TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaltenböck,Gunther
AU  - Mihatsch,Wiltrud
AU  - Schneider,Stefan
TI  - New Approaches to Hedging
T2  - Studies in Pragmatics Series
SN  - 9789004253247
AV  - P325.5.E94 -- .N49 2010eb 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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