Hedging and Discourse

This volume reviews the present state of research in the area of hedging and contains studies of hedging strategies in English, German, Finnish and Russian, using academic text-types as exemplar.

Résumé
Frontmatter -- 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