Research on Hedges in English News Reports
Authors
Yang Wang
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Yang Wang
Available Online November 2016.
- DOI
- 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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- © 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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TY - CONF AU - Yang Wang PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - Research on Hedges in English News Reports BT - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1461 EP - 1464 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.314 DO - 10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.314 ID - Wang2016/11 ER -