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Raija Markkanen & Hartmut Schröder (eds.), Hedging and discourse: Approaches to the analysis of a pragmatic phenomenon in academic texts. (Research in text theory, 24). Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. 280. Hb DM 188.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Dwight Atkinson
Dwight Atkinson
Affiliation:
English Dept., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244 datkinso@english.as.ua.edu
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Abstract

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Hedging has become a topic of renewed interest recently among discourse-oriented linguists. Recent publications attesting to this fact include Salager-Meyer 1994, Hyland 1994, 1996, 1998, Crompton 1997, and Skelton 1997, not to mention work on modals (e.g. Stubbs 1996, chaps. 5 and 8), evidentials (e.g. Barton 1993), and “vague language” (Channell 1994). The present volume continues this trend, providing a wide-ranging and truly international set of perspectives on the phenomenon of hedging.

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Book Review
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Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 597 - 600
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press