Research on Hedges in English News Reports

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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.314How to use a DOI?

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Research, Hedges Pragmatic, English News Reports

Abstract

The commonly using of Hedges in the news has been paid more and more attention, the use of hedges in English news reports can play the role of accurate information, summarize information, express politeness, self-protection and forming a proper evaluation. Through the definition of hedges and the hedges classification analysis from a pragmatic perspective, combined with the specific English news stories, we explored the language Functions of Hedges and its specific application.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
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