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Item Details
Title:
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UNDERSTATEMENTS AND HEDGES IN ENGLISH
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By: |
Axel Hubler |
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Paperback |
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£63.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
9027225311 |
ISBN 13: |
9789027225313 |
Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1983 |
Series: |
Pragmatics & Beyond IV:6 |
Pages: |
202 |
Synopsis: |
The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the linguistic restrictions for understatements and hedges to be formed by means of the following grammatical categories: negation of predicates, gradation of predicates, modalization of affirmative sentences by means of parenthetical verbs, modal adverbs, modal verbs, and questions. |
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Netherlands |
Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
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Non-returnable |
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