Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging

Schröder, Hartmut; Zimmer, Dagmar; Markkanen, Raija

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“…rather , sort of ) in their ability ‘to make things fuzzier or less fuzzier’, pragmatic scholars and discourse analysts (cf. Schröder and Zimmer 1997) have become rather interested in the communicative value of the term. This extension of Lakoffian meaning of a hedge to elements of discourse has gained currency in studies of (academic) scientific writing over the years (e.g.…”

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Cameroonian and foreign scholars’ discourse: the rhetoric of conference abstracts

Nkemleke¹

2010

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This contribution explores rhetorical features in 207 abstracts submitted for four international conferences in Yaounde (Cameroon), Regensburg (Germany) and Birmingham (UK). Relevant text features are retrieved from the corpus via concordance software and results are discussed in the light of their frequency of occurrence. Furthermore, the abstracts are manually scanned to determine recurrent schematic patterns. Findings show that rhetorical choices and recurrent "moves" in the abstracts submitted for the Regensburg-Birmingham conferences are more attuned to the expectations of community discourse practices than those of the Yaounde-Cameroon conferences.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cameroonian and foreign scholars’ discourse: the rhetoric of conference abstracts

Nkemleke¹

2010

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“…It is worthy of note that although the original language of employee-related 6 CSR reports needed to be available online so that this study could include them in the analysis. 7 Because the hedging literature largely omits hedging in non-English languages, very few studies examine hedging in non-English languages (Schröder and Zimmer 1997). Thus, this study analyses the employee-related narratives in English only as it is not within the capacity of this study to examine reports in other languages.…”

Section: Employee-related Narratives -Written Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…7. Because the hedging literature largely omits hedging in non-English languages, very few studies examine hedging in non-English languages (Schröder and Zimmer, 1997). Thus, this study analyses the employee-related narratives in English only as it is not within the capacity of this study to examine reports in other languages.…”

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confidence: 99%

Corporate social responsibility employment narratives: a linguistic analysis

Haque

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it investigates whether and to what extent “linguistic hedging”, an impression management form of linguistic expression that conveys an ambiguous level of commitment, is used in corporate social responsibility (CSR) employment narratives; and second, it explores whether there is any difference in the use of linguistic hedging between written and spoken corporate forms of language. It mobilises these objectives by examining employee-related narratives made by electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers domiciled in Taiwan, in the context of labour malpractice incidents. Design/methodology/approach Two groups of data are examined: corporate responsibility reports (written language) and interviews and speeches of corporate founders and senior executives (spoken language). The research sample is ten Taiwanese EMS firms, all of which attracted public criticism and scrutiny due to a series of employee-related incidents. The sample period is between 2009 and 2013. Linguistic hedging is measured quantitatively by the relative word frequency of hedges, using the concordance software ANTCONC, with findings interpreted through the lens of legitimacy theory and impression management. Findings The study found that hedging was evident in CSR narratives. The EMS providers in Taiwan appeared to use hedging in employee-related disclosures to manage legitimacy challenges due to employee-related incidents that had happened in their assembly plants. The adjustments in employee-related disclosures made by the EMS firms as a legitimation strategy can be seen as a rhetoric device of impression management or a form of symbolic legitimation to persuade society to restore their legitimacy status. Further, overall hedging was more frequently used in spoken than written language, which suggests that rhetorical hedging in written narratives is more likely to be a deliberate choice of tactics to influence stakeholder perceptions and thereby manage corporate legitimacy. Originality/value The study introduces a new analytical technique, linguistic hedging, into the CSR literature. This enriches research methods used in this field, providing more compelling insights into the relationship between the use of language and CSR narratives in the process of corporate legitimation of employee-related practices. This study thus provides a platform for future computational-linguistics studies in the field of CSR.

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“…That is, hedges imply that a statement is provisional and that there is an alternative to what is being said (Wood and Kroger, 2000). Often, hedges serve communication purposes such as vagueness, mitigation (Schröder and Zimmer, 1997), and protection of the speaker from an addressee’s potential negative reaction (Markannen and Schröder, 1997).…”

Section: Hedgingmentioning

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Faking to finish: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure to end unwanted sex

2016

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In this article, we explore women's accounts of consensual but unwanted sex, and how these accounts connect to feigning sexual pleasure. Interviews were conducted with 15 women and we employed a discursive analytic approach to examine the data. All women used discursive features (e.g. negation, hedging) to situate at least one of their past sexual experiences as problematic although all avoided the use of explicit labels such as rape or coercion. Furthermore, women commonly faked orgasm as a means to end these troubling sexual encounters. We argue the importance of considering women's accounts of 'problem' sex so these experiences are not dismissed.

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Hedging Research in Pragmatics: A Bibliographical Research Guide to Hedging

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Cameroonian and foreign scholars’ discourse: the rhetoric of conference abstracts

Cameroonian and foreign scholars’ discourse: the rhetoric of conference abstracts

Corporate social responsibility employment narratives: a linguistic analysis

Faking to finish: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure to end unwanted sex

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