E-Book, Englisch, Band IV:6, 202 Seiten
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
Hübler / Hubler Understatements and Hedges in English
Erscheinungsjahr 1983
ISBN: 978-90-272-8033-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band IV:6, 202 Seiten
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
ISBN: 978-90-272-8033-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.