Hedging and Discourse : : Approaches to the Analysis of a Pragmatic Phenomenon in Academic Texts / / ed. by Hartmut Schröder, Raija Markkanen.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
©1997
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:Research in Text Theory : Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie ; 24
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Other title:I-VIII --
I. Introduction --
Hedging: A Challenge for Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis --
II. Hedging Strategies in Academic Discourse --
Hedging Strategies in Written Academic Discourse: Strengthening the Argument by Weakening the Claim --
How to Tell the Truth in The British Medical Journal: Patterns of Judgement in the 19th and 20th Centuries --
Hedging in Russian Academic Writing in Sociological Texts --
III. Interactive Aspects of Hedging --
Hedges and Readers: Effects on Attitudes and Learning --
Hedging in Language Revisers’ Hands --
Hedging in Expert-Language Reviews --
IV. Cross-cultural Aspects of Hedging --
On the Writing of Science and the Science of Writing: Hedging in Science Text and Elsewhere --
Impersonalization as a Form of Hedging --
Interlanguage View on Hedging --
Some Observations on Hedging Phenomena and Modifying Devices as Regional Markers in the Speech of Young East Germans --
V. Hedging: The Concept, its Origins and a Bibliographical Guide --
The Concept of Hedging: Origins, Approaches and Definitions --
Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging --
Name Index --
Subject Index --
281-284
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110807332
9783110636895
DOI:10.1515/9783110807332
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Hartmut Schröder, Raija Markkanen.