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Hedging in English and Persian Editorials: A Contrastive Study
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Mohammad Hasan Tahririan   , Mozhdeh Shahzamani |
| Sheikhbahaee University, Isfahan |
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Abstract: (11532 Views) |
| The present study was conducted to examine the hedging phenomenon, an important linguistic feature which is concerned with the expression of tentativeness and possibility, in journalistic English. It specifically aimed at examining English and Persian social, economic and political newspaper editorials to describe the similarities and differences in the frequency of hedging devices in the two languages. The results revealed that English newspaper editorials enjoyed more hedges than Persian ones. Regarding topic variations, English political editorials were slightly more hedged than the economic and social ones whereas, Persian economic editorials were slightly more hedged than the political and social ones. |
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| Keywords: Contrastive analysis, Editorials, Genre analysis, Hedging, Journalistic Texts |
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Type of Study: Research |
Published: 2009/03/15
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