Masoome Jalalian
PhD Candidate of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran
[ 1 ] - Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates
To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...
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