Preserving Face and the Use of Hedges in Masculine World of Men

Mohajer, Leila; Jan, Jariah Binti Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.176

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“…The two other researchers interested in hedges are Mohajer and Jan (2015), and they entitled the research: Preserving Face and the Use of Hedges in Masculine World of Men. By observing hedges, they want to look at instances of hedges in men's communication to determine how hedges as linguistic features employed by men.…”

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Gender Differences in the Use of Hedging devices in Students’ Conversations

Trihartanti¹

2020

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To minimize conflict that might happen during conversation, and one of the tools is hedging. In fact, there are some differences in using hedging between female and male students; therefore, this study is conducted with aims: first is to identify what types of hedging used by female and male students, and the second is to analyze gender differences in using hedging, and the third is to analyze the function of hedges used by students. This research uses a qualitative method and the data taken from 24 female students of the English department, and 24 students of Electrical engineering. Having been analyzed, it could be found out that hedges used by female English students are: plausibility shields (30%), rounders (15%), adaptors (7%) attribute (4%) including hedges taken from negative politeness strategy such as: question, hedge (10%), and the imposition, Rx is (7%). The last hedges often used as discourse markers are: ‘Hmm’ (10%), ‘Well’ (7%) and ‘Oh’ (6%). On contrast, male students mostly applied hedges: plausibility shields (12%), rounders (5%), adaptor (4%), attribute (4%). from negative politeness strategy, question, hedge to express politeness by using indirect question (7%), and the imposition, Rx to decrease the imposition of utterance (4%). Male students also apply some discourse markers as hedges such as: ‘well’ (12%), ‘Oh’ (6%) and ‘Hmm’ (5%). From the research it is also found that female students often show their hesitations, use long utterances while male students try to show their self-confidence, and they mostly utter to the point.

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Gender Differences in the Use of Hedging devices in Students’ Conversations

Trihartanti¹

2020

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“…Furthermore, the use of hedges by the speaker can soften the impact of the utterances toward interlocutors (Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018), also in Holmes (1984) as cited by Mohadjer and Jan (2015) hedges have modal meaning intendedly to deliver uncertainty statements and effective meaning to deal with the intention by speaker toward the interlocutors, and according to Hübler (1983) as quoted from Kholisoh and Setiawan (2018) the use of hedges can bring the conversation to become more interesting and acceptable, also the politeness to respect the interlocutor's name can be delivered well through hedges (Mohajer and Jan, 2015). On the contrary, hedges are likely used more by the males in casual conversation to show politeness to the interlocutors of the same gender since the tentativeness and uncertainty through the use of hedges cannot be correlated to a particular gender (Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018), and the use of hedges by males according to Kholisoh and Setiawan have more purposes than females' hedges that lead to the differences of the effects and perceptions of the interlocutors.…”

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“…Hedges cannot be separated from gender (Wray et al, 1998) since gender becomes a significant to be observed (Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018). However, according to Lakoff (1975) as quoted from Holmes (2013) hedges are believed to characterize women's speech, since hedges used by women show the hesitations and uncertainty which always related to women (Lakoff, 1975 as cited in Mohajer and Jan, 2015). These findings by Lakoff remain debatable since the use of hedges cannot be correlated to a specific gender.…”

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“…The previous studies on the use of hedges have been done by Mohajer and Jan (2015); Kholisoh and Setiawan, (2018); Vlasyan (2019) among males has various functions regarding the sensitiveness of the topics. Thus, the use of hedges can show the speaker's regret, save the speaker's name, save the interlocutor's name by reducing the sensitiveness of the topics through the hedged opinion, create Syani Dwi Fitriana, Slamet Setiawan The Application of Turn-Taking Strategies on THE BOYZ Podcast Highlight Episode: Conversation Analysis Reflection solidarity between the speaker and the interlocutor, and hedging his opinion with adjusted his tone just in case his argument is false toward the topics given (Mohajer and Jan, 2015;Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018;Vlasyan, 2019). The findings automatically reject Coates' (1987) findings that the use of hedges in daily conversation is most likely used not only to save the speaker's name but also the interlocutor's name.…”

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“Well; I think…”, the Dominant Hedges Uttered by Males in Daily Communication: A Sociolinguistic Study

Abadi¹,

Hartanti²,

Setiawan³

2022

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Hedges are linguistics features that were previously considered by some researchers as the characterization of women's speech to show hesitation and uncertainty of the speech regarding the character of discussion and the sensitivity of the questions. However, this claim was remain debatable by another researcher since the use of hedges cannot be correlated to any specific gender. This study was conducted to reveal the use of hedges can also be employed by males in an informal daily conversation, discussing lights topic and questions that often appear. The conducted study was supported by the transcription from the recorded online meeting with males native and non-native English speakers. The transcribed recorded online meeting was useful to examine the hedges as the participants' expressions in the discussion. The results of the study showed that males also utilized hedges in an informal discussion, and the most frequent one is verbal filler will. The hedges uttered by both males native and non-native were various such as to give them chance to think, to reduce the impact delivered, self-disclosure, and appraise someone's idea. The findings also found that the use of hedges by males in casual daily conversation is normal, in regard to saving the speaker's name toward the interlocutor when discussing a sensitive topic or answering a sensitive question.

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“…Hedging devices are useful in expressing opinions while softening them in the process (Almusaway, et al 2019). Hedges utilized as a connect tools to the type of the conversation topic, to neutralize the sensitivity of the assertions ( (Mohajer and Jan, 2015). The hedges forms can range from a single lexical item to syntactic structures, which do not ease the task of establishing a definition and hedges can appear alone or in clusters (Hassani and Razmdideh, 2019).…”

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Hedges Function in Masculine and Feminine Feature’s Language: A Pragmatics Analysis

Azizah

2021

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The purpose of this study is to criticize the gender language features proposed by Coates (2013) proposed in Lakoff's theory (1975) by investigating speeches expressed by two different genders in interviews. The method used in this research is the descriptive qualitative method. Data were analyzed based on the theory of Coates (2013) to find language features based on gender and use the taxonomy of the hedging strategy proposed by Martin-Martin (2008). The results of the research show that male-female language features can be used by the opposite gender by looking at the perspective of the use of hedges and strategies in the concept of speech expressed by gender (male, female).Keywords: feature language; gender; hedges; hedging

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Preserving Face and the Use of Hedges in Masculine World of Men

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Gender Differences in the Use of Hedging devices in Students’ Conversations

Gender Differences in the Use of Hedging devices in Students’ Conversations

“Well; I think…”, the Dominant Hedges Uttered by Males in Daily Communication: A Sociolinguistic Study

Hedges Function in Masculine and Feminine Feature’s Language: A Pragmatics Analysis

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