Understatements and hedges in English

Axel Hübler

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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[目次]

  • 1. Preface, pix
  • 2. 0. Introduction, p1
  • 3. 1. Guidelines to Understatements and Hedges, p9
  • 4. 1.1. The sentence and its negatability, p9
  • 5. 1.2. Liability constraints of the sentence, p14
  • 6. 1.3. Working definition and working perspective, p23
  • 7. 2. Phrastic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Understatements, p27
  • 8. 2.1. Negation of predicates, p27
  • 9. 2.2. Detensification of predicates by grading adverbs, p63
  • 10. 3. Neustic Indetermination as a Device for Forming Hedges, p97
  • 11. 3.1. Factivity and modality, p97
  • 12. 3.2. Questions, p98
  • 13. 3.3. Modalized assertory assertions, p114
  • 14. 3.4. Summary, p153
  • 15. 4. Communicative Conditions for Understatements and Hedges, p155
  • 16. 4.1. Another look at negatability of sentences, p155
  • 17. 4.2. Communication as a possible threat to face, p156
  • 18. 4.3. Understatements and hedges as face saving strategies, p157
  • 19. 4.4. Face threatening acts and face saving strategies exemplified by praise and criticism, p157
  • 20. 4.5. Summary, p169
  • 21. Footnotes, p171
  • 22. References, p183

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書名 Understatements and hedges in English
著作者等 Hübler, Axel
Hubler Axel
シリーズ名 Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies
出版元 J. Benjamins
刊行年月 1983
ページ数 vii, 192 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 9027225311
NCID BA07075894
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言語 英語
原文言語 ドイツ語
出版国 オランダ
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