Understatements and hedges in English /
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Author / Creator: | Hübler, Axel |
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1983. |
Description: | vii, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English German |
Series: | Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; IV:6 Pragmatics & beyond IV:6 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/637169 |
Summary: | The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the linguistic restrictions for understatements and hedges to be formed by means of the following grammatical categories: negation of predicates, gradation of predicates, modalization of affirmative sentences by means of parenthetical verbs, modal adverbs, modal verbs, and questions. |
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Item Description: | Revision and translation of thesis (Habilitation)--University of Duisburg, 1981. |
Physical Description: | vii, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [183]-192. |
ISBN: | 9027225311 : $22.00 (U.S.) |
ISSN: | 0166-6258 ; |