Essays about: "Joakim Aldén"

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  1. 1. Hedging Rule Discussions : A study on hedging and emoticons in an online board game discussion forum

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Joakim Aldén; [2019]
    Keywords : Hedging; hedge; politeness theory; computer-mediated communication; cmc; pragmatics;

    Abstract : In everyday language, people tend to speak in a non-committing fashion when making claims, either to save their own face or to save another person’s face. In linguistics, this is called hedging, with common words and expressions such as probably, assume and I don’t know often revealing that a hedging speech act has been performed. READ MORE