Buch, Englisch, Band IV:6, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 290 g
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
Buch, Englisch, Band IV:6, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 290 g
Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond
ISBN: 978-90-272-2531-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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.