RT - Journal Article T1 - Hedging in English and Persian Editorials: A Contrastive Study JF - ijla YR - 2009 JO - ijla VO - 12 IS - 1 UR - http://ijal.khu.ac.ir/article-1-63-en.html SP - 199 EP - 221 K1 - Contrastive analysis K1 - Editorials K1 - Genre analysis K1 - Hedging K1 - Journalistic Texts AB - 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. LA eng UL http://ijal.khu.ac.ir/article-1-63-en.html M3 ER -