LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL HEDGING AS THE MEANS OF AUTHOR’S MODALITY
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https://doi.org/10.35433/philology.2(93).2020.96-103Ключові слова:
hedging, hedge, ultimacy, distancing, epistemic modality.Анотація
The article examines the phenomenon of linguistic hedging related to the establishment of theauthor’s responsibility limits for the statement and the mitigation of ultimacy.
In English texts, hedging tools are used to express politeness to readers and interlocutors, to avoidsubjectivity in the information presentation and to protect themselves from possible criticism.
Hedging as a subjective method of influence has an objective reflection in reality and acts as apromising direction to a successful communication strategy of political, scientific, public discourse.
Non-ultimacy is realized through the use of so-called hedges, i.e. means belonging to differentlanguage levels. The article focuses on lexical and grammatical means: modal verbs, adjectives andnouns with the meaning of probability and possibility, quantitative nouns, adjectives and adverbs, aswell as inversions that emphasize that the author distances himself from the formulated conclusions,refers to the authority of others, refers to the authority of others. as probable, emphasizes that theopinion or conclusion does not belong to him personally.
The article provides a structural, semantic and pragmatic analysis of hedge markers, as well asthe classification of hedging instruments by both structural and functional criteria.
The study reviews the pragmatic causes and functional features of language tools marked by theperlocutionary intention of uncertainty. The study highlights basic lexical units belonging to thearsenal of hedging instruments. The results of the study can be seen as confirmation of the tendencyto increase the category of uncertainty in modern linguistic consciousness.
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