LEADER 04632nam 2200673 450 001 9910787975403321 005 20230725040258.0 010 $a90-04-25324-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004253247 035 $a(CKB)2670000000566916 035 $a(EBL)4003990 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001107328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11623143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11082334 035 $a(PQKB)11239456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4003990 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004253247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4003990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11096600 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL831853 035 $a(OCoLC)871223222 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000566916 100 $a20151116h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNew approaches to hedging /$fedited by Gunther Kaltenbo?ck, Wiltrud Mihatsch, Stefan Schneider ; contributors, Gisle Andersen [and thirteen others] 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBingley, England :$cEmerald,$d2010. 210 4$d©2010 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Pragmatics,$x1750-368X 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-85724-247-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider -- $tIntroduction /$rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider -- $tPragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging /$rBruce Fraser -- $tA Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns /$rGisle Andersen -- $tHedges in Context: Form and Function of Sort of and Kind of /$rAnita Fetzer -- $tMitigating and Being Vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse /$rBernd Meyer and Birte Pawlack -- $tThe Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change /$rWiltrud Mihatsch -- $tHyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison /$rEva Lavric -- $tApproximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese /$rYongping Ran -- $tWeakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato?s Gorgias /$rClaudia Caffi -- $tPosition and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English /$rElise Kärkkäinen -- $tPragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I Think /$rGunther Kaltenböck -- $tParenthetical Hedged Performatives /$rStefan Schneider -- $tOn the Relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position /$rAntonio Briz and Maria Estellés -- $tSubject Index /$rGunther Kaltenböck , Wiltrud Mihatsch and Stefan Schneider. 330 $aHedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges. 410 0$aStudies in pragmatics. 606 $aHedge (Linguistics) 606 $aEuphemism 606 $aPragmatics 615 0$aHedge (Linguistics) 615 0$aEuphemism. 615 0$aPragmatics. 676 $a332.64524 702 $aKaltenbo?ck$b Gunther 702 $aMihatsch$b Wiltrud 702 $aSchneider$b Stefan 702 $aAndersen$b Gisle 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787975403321 996 $aNew approaches to hedging$91136647 997 $aUNINA