HEDGING THROUGH THE USE OF IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN INDONESIAN OP-ED ARTICLES

The presence of an opinion editorial (op-ed) page has provided room for the public to articulate their ideas about recent salient issues at no cost. notion that authors op-ed article could express and arguments in space makes them need certain devices like hedges protect themselves from any negative consequences such as rejection readers if fact argument is considered false. This intended investigate use impersonal constructions hedging 45 Indonesian articles published by three leading national newspapers: Kompas, Tempo, Republika. Impersonal construction this case refers a grammatical avoids human subject sentence. includes agentless passive voice abstract rhetors. A qualitative research design applied study. study reveals 56 occurrences with details 53 data belonging category 3 rhetors examined. can be means being blamed case, they stated different reality. Furthermore, also used avoid subjectivity claim direct focus content text not authors.Â