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Understatements and Hedges in English
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English
Published/Copyright:
1983
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The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the linguistic restrictions for understatements and hedges to be formed by means of the following grammatical categories: negation of predicates, gradation of predicates, modalization of affirmative sentences by means of parenthetical verbs, modal adverbs, modal verbs, and questions.
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Table of contents
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Preface
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0. Introduction
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1. Guidelines to Understatements and Hedges
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2. Phrastic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Understatements
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3. Neustic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Hedges
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4. Communicative Conditions for Understatements and Hedges
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Footnotes
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References
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