Maryam Alavi
M. A., TEFL Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz
[ 1 ] - Power and Politics of Language Use: A Survey of Hedging Devices in Political Interviews
One tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. Despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. To this aim, four political interviews were selected from CNN and BBC websites on the basis of t...
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