Hedging and Discourse: Approaches to the Analysis of a Pragmatic Phenomenon in Academic Texts

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Hedging and Discourse

Approaches to the Analysis of a Pragmatic Phenomenon in Academic Texts

Edited by: Raija Markkanen and Hartmut Schröder

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1997

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Volume 24 | Research in Text Theory

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Discourse Analysis
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Linguistics, other

I-VIII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
I. Introduction
Hedging: A Challenge for Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis Raija Markkanen and Hartmut Schroder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
II. Hedging Strategies in Academic Discourse
Hedging Strategies in Written Academic Discourse: Strengthening the Argument by Weakening the Claim Paul G. Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
How to Tell the Truth in The British Medical Journal: Patterns of Judgement in the 19th and 20th Centuries John Skelton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
Hedging in Russian Academic Writing in Sociological Texts Vasili Namsaraev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
III. Interactive Aspects of Hedging
Hedges and Readers: Effects on Attitudes and Learning Avon Crismore and William J. Vande Kopple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Hedging in Language Revisers’ Hands Anna Mauranen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Hedging in Expert-Language Reviews Wolfram Wilss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
IV. Cross-cultural Aspects of Hedging
On the Writing of Science and the Science of Writing: Hedging in Science Text and Elsewhere William Grabe and Robert B. Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Impersonalization as a Form of Hedging Minna-Riitta Luukka and Raija Markkanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
Interlanguage View on Hedging Tarja Nikula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	188
Some Observations on Hedging Phenomena and Modifying Devices as Regional Markers in the Speech of Young East Germans Heinz Kreutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
V. Hedging: The Concept, its Origins and a Bibliographical Guide
The Concept of Hedging: Origins, Approaches and Definitions Gudrun Clemen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging Hartmut Schröder and Dagmar Zimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
281-284 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281

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October 6, 2010

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9783110807332

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August 4, 1997

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9783110155914

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Reprint 2010

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8

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280

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110807332

eBook ISBN: 9783110807332

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