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050 4 _aP325.5.E94 -- .N49 2010eb
100 1 _aKaltenböck, Gunther.
245 1 0 _aNew Approaches to Hedging.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2010.
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (324 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aStudies in Pragmatics Series ;
_vv.9
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aHedging 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aMihatsch, Wiltrud.
700 1 _aSchneider, Stefan.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKaltenböck, Gunther
_tNew Approaches to Hedging
_dBoston : BRILL,c2010
_z9780857242471
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aStudies in Pragmatics Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4003990
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