Application of Hedges in Business English 模煳限制语在商务英语中的应用

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1、ApplicationofHedgesinBusinessEnglish模糊限制语在商务英语中的应用姓名学号院系研究生学院专业外国语言学及应用语言学提交时间：2011年6月22日AbstractFuzzinessisoneoftheessentialfeaturesofnaturallanguages.Asacorememberofvagueness,hedginglanguagealsowidelyexistinourdailylife.Sincethe1970s,somescholarshavebegun

2、toexplorehedgesinmanyaspects.Withthefurtherstudy,hedgeshavegraduallydevelopedinsomecertainfieldsinpracticaluse.Wefindthathedgesareusedfrequentlyinbusinesstoswiftlyconveycertaincommercialmessages.HedgingdevicesarealsowidelyusedininternationalbusinessEnglishb

3、ecauseofitsirreplaceableeffect.Thispapertalksaboutanintroductionandadescriptionofsomebasicknowledgeofhedges.Italsoanalyzesthepossiblepragmaticfunctionsofhedgesinbusinesslanguage.Hedgeshavesomecertainvaluesinpracticaluse.Keywords:hedges,hedging,businessEngli

4、sh,pragmaticfunctionsI.IntroductionVaguenessisoneoftheessentialfeaturesofnaturallanguagesandphenomenaoffuzzylanguageexisteverywhereinourdailylife.Whenpeoplecan’tmakesureofwhattheyaresaying,theyoftenemployvaguelanguagetoexpresstheiropinionsonsomeoccasions,an

5、dinthiswaytheycanmakethecommunicationcontinuesmoothly.Hedge,asacorememberofvagueness,isthemosttypicalrepresentativeandthemostuniversalphenomenon.Inreality,hedgesareusuallyconsideredasapragmaticstrategy.Hedgesarepreferredtechnologyforpeopletomaketheirutteran

6、cemoreflexibleandeffectiveandhelptoavoidtakingresponsibilityfortheirabsoluteorarbitrarywords.Forexample,interview,actuallyacommunicativeprocess,needstoberealizedthroughappropriatelanguage.ThispaperanalysesthepragmaticrealizationandfunctionsofhedgesinEnglish

7、interviews.II.LiteratureReviewTheterm“hedge”wasfirstintroducedbyLakoffin1972inhisfamousarticleHedges:AStudyinMeaningCriteriaandtheLogicofFuzzyConcepts(1972:195)tomean“wordswhosejobistomakethingsfuzzier(orlessfuzzy)”.Sincethen,theuseofhedgehasbeenstudiedasan

8、importantpragmaticphenomenonfromvariousperspectives.Hedgesmayintentionallyorunintentionallybeemployedinbothspokenandwrittenlanguagesincetheyarecruciallyimportantincommunication.Itseemsthatwhenpeopleare