Hedging and Discourse
Subtitle: Approaches to the Analysis of a Pragmatic Phenomenon in Academic Texts (Research in Text Theory)
Contributors: Raija Markkanen (Editor); Hartmut Schroder (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783110155914
Subjects: Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; English; Finnish (Suomi); German; Russian; Language; Linguistics; Language and culture
First sentence: "If you hedge against something unpleasant or unwanted that might affect you, you do something which will protect you from it.