Multiple hedging in the political interview

This paper deals with multiple hedges non-factive verbs and phrases in political interviews Serbian English. Political interview, as a specific type of discourse, is increasingly present the media becoming main form communication between actors public. interview both source information for public means conducting campaigns. Since politicians are responsible to their voters every action statement, they must choose carefully what say how it. One important characteristics discourse hedging propositional content, because sometimes cannot or do not want give an explicit answer delicate questions. In these cases, use one more make statements acceptable without compromising committing themselves. Linguistic disciplines that deal analysis all types including pragmatics critical analysis, which represent theoretical basis this paper. Examining English Serbian, our goal has been classify describe used by conversations determine discursive functions, well perform contrastive two languages. The results have generally confirmed initial hypotheses about functions hedges.