Understatements and Hedges in English¶
Hübler. (1983). Understatements and Hedges in English.
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- The reconstruction depends on shared pragmatic conventions that make the device register-sensitive: "not bad" reads as warm praise in a British conversational context and as genuine neutrality in a more direct-assertion register, because the conveyed-strong-from-stated-weak inference is culturally trained.
This sourceA monograph analysing understatement and hedging in modern English from philosophical, cultural and socio-psychological angles, with negation of predicates among the constructions that form them.
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“The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English.”
- The reconstruction depends on shared pragmatic conventions that make the device register-sensitive: "not bad" reads as warm praise in a British conversational context and as genuine neutrality in a more direct-assertion register, because the conveyed-strong-from-stated-weak inference is culturally trained.
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