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

Research on Hedges in English News Reports

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Yang Wang
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Yang Wang
Available Online November 2016.
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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.314How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-263-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.314How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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