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245 0 0 _aNew approaches to hedging /
_cedited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Wiltrud Mihatsch, Stefan Schneider.
264 1 _aBingley, UK :
_bEmerald.
264 4 _cc2010.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aStudies in pragmatics ;
_v9
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider --
_tIntroduction /
_rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider --
_tPragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging /
_rBruce Fraser --
_tA Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns /
_rGisle Andersen --
_tHedges in Context: Form and Function of Sort of and Kind of /
_rAnita Fetzer --
_tMitigating and Being Vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse /
_rBernd Meyer and Birte Pawlack --
_tThe Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change /
_rWiltrud Mihatsch --
_tHyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison /
_rEva Lavric --
_tApproximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese /
_rYongping Ran --
_tWeakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato’s Gorgias /
_rClaudia Caffi --
_tPosition and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English /
_rElise Kärkkäinen --
_tPragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think /
_rGunther Kaltenböck --
_tParenthetical Hedged Performatives /
_rStefan Schneider --
_tOn the Relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position /
_rAntonio Briz and Maria Estellés --
_tSubject Index /
_rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
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. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges.
650 0 _aHedge (Linguistics)
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aEuphemism
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aPragmatics
_vCongresses.
700 1 _aKaltenböck, Gunther.
700 1 _aMihatsch, Wiltrud.
700 1 _aSchneider, Stefan.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tNew Approaches to Hedging
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010,
_z9780857242471
830 0 _aStudies in Pragmatics
_v9.
830 0 _aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248724.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247
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