英語廣播新聞中的模糊限制語研究.pdf

1、Hedges express caution，tentativeness and possibility incommunication.Hedges can be categorized into three types，i.e．semantic，grammatical and pragmatic．Hedging devices are varied and difficult to distinguish from the irli

2、teral meanings，SO the distinction and interpretation of hedges must be undertaken in certain contexts．Functions of hedging from the pragmatic perspective have been one of the most frequently discussed subjects at home an

3、d abroad． Hedges abound in English broadcast ingnews．This study attempts to find different features of hedging between the two sub-genres，hard news and soft news，of English broadcasting，as well as American broadcasti

4、ng news and British broadcasting news．Four corpora of English broadcasting news are randomly selected from VOA and BBC respectively。Adopting the categorization of hedging proposed by Salager Meyer，this paper makes a cont