“…Hedges can represent speakers' ideas mainly to support the speakers' utterances to conceal the deficiency of knowledge (Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018), lessen the effect of the expressed arguments, to show certainty (Lakoff, 1975 as cited in Kholisoh andSetiawan, 2018) or uncertainty (Coates, 2004 as cited in Mohadjer and Jan, 2015). Hedges cannot be separated from gender (Wray et al, 1998) since gender becomes a significant to be observed (Kholisoh and Setiawan, 2018). However, according to Lakoff (1975) as quoted from Holmes (2013) hedges are believed to characterize women's speech, since hedges used by women show the hesitations and uncertainty which always related to women (Lakoff, 1975 as cited in Mohajer and Jan, 2015).…”