Understatements and hedges in English

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Understatements and hedges in English

Axel Hübler

(Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, IV:6)

J. Benjamins, 1983

  • : u.s.
  • : european

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Revision and translation of thesis (Habilitation)--University of Duisburg, 1981

Bibliography: p. [183]-192

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. 0. Introduction
  • 3. 1. Guidelines to Understatements and Hedges
  • 4. 1.1. The sentence and its negatability
  • 5. 1.2. Liability constraints of the sentence
  • 6. 1.3. Working definition and working perspective
  • 7. 2. Phrastic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Understatements
  • 8. 2.1. Negation of predicates
  • 9. 2.2. Detensification of predicates by grading adverbs
  • 10. 3. Neustic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Hedges
  • 11. 3.1. Factivity and modality
  • 12. 3.2. Questions
  • 13. 3.3. Modalized assertory assertions
  • 14. 3.4. Summary
  • 15. 4. Communicative Conditions for Understatements and Hedges
  • 16. 4.1. Another look at negatability of sentences
  • 17. 4.2. Communication as a possible threat to face
  • 18. 4.3. Understatements and hedges as face saving strategies
  • 19. 4.4. Face threatening acts and face saving strategies exemplified by praise and criticism
  • 20. 4.5. Summary
  • 21. Footnotes
  • 22. References

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