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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in text theory ; v. 24.
- Research in text theory = Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie, 0179-4167 ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis.
- Pragmatics.
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Hedging and Discourse".
- Contents:
- Front matter
- I. Introduction
- Hedging: A Challenge for Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis / Markkanen, Raija / Schroder, Hartmut
- II. Hedging Strategies in Academic Discourse
- Hedging Strategies in Written Academic Discourse: Strengthening the Argument by Weakening the Claim / Meyer, Paul G.
- How to Tell the Truth in The British Medical Journal: Patterns of Judgement in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Skelton, John
- Hedging in Russian Academic Writing in Sociological Texts / Namsaraev, Vasili
- III. Interactive Aspects of Hedging
- Hedges and Readers: Effects on Attitudes and Learning / Crismore, Avon / Vande Kopple, William J.
- Hedging in Language Revisers' Hands / Mauranen, Anna
- Hedging in Expert-Language Reviews / Wilss, Wolfram
- IV. Cross-cultural Aspects of Hedging
- On the Writing of Science and the Science of Writing: Hedging in Science Text and Elsewhere / Grabe, William / Kaplan, Robert B.
- Impersonalization as a Form of Hedging / Luukka, Minna-Riitta / Markkanen, Raija
- Interlanguage View on Hedging / Nikula, Tarja
- Some Observations on Hedging Phenomena and Modifying Devices as Regional Markers in the Speech of Young East Germans / Kreutz, Heinz
- V. Hedging: The Concept, its Origins and a Bibliographical Guide
- The Concept of Hedging: Origins, Approaches and Definitions / Clemen, Gudrun
- Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging / Schröder, Hartmut / Zimmer, Dagmar
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Collection of articles originally published 1991-1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110807332
- 3110807335
- OCLC:
- 794663556
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