An Analysis of Pragmatic Functions of Hedging in American Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Teng, Yongqing

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“…Sometimes, people cannot avoid saying about unfamiliar topics and, it is not wise touse declarative statements since listeners are always ready to assess the exactness ofwhat are said. Therefore, another advantage is protecting speakers' selfimage fromtheir unfriendly listeners (Teng, 2015). Other goals that can be achieved by using hedges include avoidance of the unnecessary risks, responsibilities, and functions such as good rapport, giving options, respect, showing uncertainty, caution, or consideration, and most importantly to achieve academic acceptance and success (Ahmed & Maros,2017).…”

Section: Klasikal: Journal Of Education Language Teaching and Sciencementioning

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“…Other goals that can be achieved by using hedges include avoidance of the unnecessary risks, responsibilities, and functions such as good rapport, giving options, respect, showing uncertainty, caution, or consideration, and most importantly to achieve academic acceptance and success (Ahmed & Maros,2017). In English Language Teaching (ELT), hedges are considered important because based on research conducted by Teng (2015), it is stated that using hedges is a powerful strategy in communicative interactions between teacher and students so both teacher and students should learn this device to help them to become more successful in communications especially in ELT process. Theunderstanding of using hedges, both theory and practice, leads to no more feel confused when using it.…”

Section: Klasikal: Journal Of Education Language Teaching and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Efl University Students Employed a Criteria of Hedges During Their Speaking Class Within the Academic Setting

2023

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Communication becomes an essential aspect in language classroom because it bridges the meaning of a person’s ideas. Therefore, as foreign language learners, the students have to have a good understanding at how to interact effectively with other students. Regarding to this, the researcher considered it is crucial to investigate English Foreign Language (EFL) university students’ ways in communication during their speaking class which includes hedges. The objectives of the research was to find out the types of hedges employed by EFL university students during their speaking class within the academic setting. This study was conducted at Politeknik LP3I Makassar and it was focused on the students in the first semesters in subject Basic Speaking with the total participants were 23 students of one class. The method used was descriptive qualitative method. There were 3 recordings based on the students’ interactions in the classroom. The theory from Riekkinen and Svarova (2009) was used to analyze the data gain. After transcribing and analyzing the data, the results showed that the students in EFL speaking class utilized some types of hedges. The hedges used involves personal evaluation, expression of limitation, expression of hesitation, and the combine hedges. Besides, the students employ hedges for some reasons.

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Section: Klasikal: Journal Of Education Language Teaching and Sciencementioning

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Section: Klasikal: Journal Of Education Language Teaching and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Efl University Students Employed a Criteria of Hedges During Their Speaking Class Within the Academic Setting

2023

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“…In the long run, other research on this matter are also done aside from the two-way conversations. Research on hedgings used in speeches or monologues are conducted by Hosman and Siltanen (2006), Neary-Sundquist (2013), andTeng (2015). Hedging is a communicative strategy which is observable in formal monologues such as scientific presentation, business talks, and highly popular talks like TED Talks.…”

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Hedging In Ted Talks: A Corpus-Based Pragmatic Study

Nuraniwati

Permatasari

2022

JEELS

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Hedging is a communicative strategy and a form of pragmatic competence which plays a central role in delivering the intended message of the speaker. Commonly observed in two-way conversations, hedges as hedging devices are also present in monologues. This study investigates the most common hedges used in popular monologues TED Talks as well as observes the various communicative strategies they denote. 130 transcripts of the talks, taped from 2002-2019 taken from the official website of TED (ted.com), are collected to build a corpus of 337,302 tokens. Through corpus-based analysis using concordance software AntConc 3.5.0, 48 most common hedges are inserted for frequency search. The search hits show that the most frequently-used hedges in the corpus are ‘just,’ ‘could,’ ‘you know,’ ‘actually,’ ‘I think,’ and ‘kind of’ with the numbers of occurrence 1107, 554, 541, 530, 390, and 309 respectively. From the analyses of the functions of the most frequent hedges, it can be concluded that each of the hedges serves distinctive pragmatic strategy which contributes in the communicative processes of the talks.

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“…Basing on the politeness principle adhered in the study citing that speaker will handpick whatever politeness strategy to show consciousness in another person's face. With this assertion, as speakers, they choose suitable politeness strategy the moment they get the persons' faces (Teng, 2015). The vitality of linguistic self-awareness can also be achieved because our words can extend across the thinking of the people, hence, speech is somehow automatic, though in some time, the strive to thrive communication has been done, yet the tendency to forget how do speakers handle and utter words with various meaning to the hearers.…”

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Politeness indicators of President Duterte’s speeches: A content analysis

Gomez¹,

Manuel²

2022

IJRSE

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Language can make or break a person. Oftentimes, a person is judged by the way he/she expresses his/her stand. This study determined the politeness strategies employed by President Duterte on his speeches and the interpretation of the audience on his politeness based on these speeches. This study used a qualitative approach specifically utilizing content analysis. It catered seven informants in the in-depth interview and seven informants in the focus group discussion. Results revealed that the President has employed all the politeness strategies on his speeches, namely: bald-on record, negative politeness, positive politeness and off-record or the indirect strategy. Findings also revealed that the interpretation of the audience on the politeness of President Duterte based on his speeches were the President give excitement to the listeners, catch the audience participation and the audience suggest appropriate reaction on the President's sensitive speeches. It is recommended that there will be more exploration on the politeness strategies of the President in different platforms wherein the audience interacts with the President.

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An Analysis of Pragmatic Functions of Hedging in American Presidential Inaugural Addresses

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Efl University Students Employed a Criteria of Hedges During Their Speaking Class Within the Academic Setting

Efl University Students Employed a Criteria of Hedges During Their Speaking Class Within the Academic Setting

Hedging In Ted Talks: A Corpus-Based Pragmatic Study

Politeness indicators of President Duterte’s speeches: A content analysis

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