New approaches to hedging /

New approaches to hedging / / edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Wiltrud Mihatsch, Stefan Schneider ; contributors, Gisle Andersen [and thirteen others].

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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. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Lingui...

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Superior document:Studies in Pragmatics,
TeilnehmendeR:
Kaltenböck, Gunther,
Mihatsch, Wiltrud,
Schneider, Stefan,
Andersen, Gisle,
Place / Publishing House:Bingley, England : : Emerald,, 2010.
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in pragmatics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Gunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider
  • Introduction / Gunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider
  • Pragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging / Bruce Fraser
  • A Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns / Gisle Andersen
  • Hedges in Context: Form and Function of Sort of and Kind of / Anita Fetzer
  • Mitigating and Being Vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse / Bernd Meyer and Birte Pawlack
  • The Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change / Wiltrud Mihatsch
  • Hyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison / Eva Lavric
  • Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese / Yongping Ran
  • Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato’s Gorgias / Claudia Caffi
  • Position and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English / Elise Kärkkäinen
  • Pragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think / Gunther Kaltenböck
  • Parenthetical Hedged Performatives / Stefan Schneider
  • On the Relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position / Antonio Briz and Maria Estellés
  • Subject Index / Gunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider.

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