A Corpus Analysis of Hedges in Lingua Franca English

JeeWon Hahn (한지원)

doi:10.14353/sjk.2020.28.4.08

A Corpus Analysis of Hedges in Lingua Franca English

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2020, 28(4), pp.227-248
DOI : 10.14353/sjk.2020.28.4.08
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics
Received : November 10, 2020
Accepted : December 7, 2020
Published : December 31, 2020

JeeWon Hahn ¹

¹부경대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

English globalization entails the use of English by speakers from mother tongues other than English. Trained and professional non-native speakers of English have reportedly achieved communicative competence owing to bilingual or multilingual experiences. Their pragmatic competence developed through diverse interactions with speakers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (Kecskes 2015). In this study, hedges were explored in international briefings where English was used as a lingua franca by professionals of an organization. Three hedging devices including modal verbs, modal adverbs, and pronouns were analyzed to investigate their pragmatic competence. In addition, the professional non-native English briefings were compared with the U.S. briefings for their similarities and differences. Results showed developmental patterns from learner English while they shared similarities with native data. These findings were accounted for by the varieties of English and the genre differences. Implications for pragmatic competence are discussed as well.

KEYWORDS

hedges, pragmatics, corpus, lingua franca English, briefings

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

[journal] Coates, J. / 1987 / Epistemic modality and spoken discourse / Transactions of the Philological society 85(1) : 110~131

[book] Drew, P. / 1992 / Talk at work : Interaction in institutional settings / Cambridge Univ Press

[journal] 은호윤 / 2020 / Study on Hedges and Boosters in the Conclusions of Research Articles / 영어어문교육 / 한국영어어문교육학회 26(3) : 19~37

[confproc] Fraser, B. / 2009 / Hedging in political discourse: The 2007 Bush press conference / Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Political Discourse : 201~213

[book] Fraser, B. / 2010 / New Approaches to Hedging / Emerald Group Publishing Limited : 15~35

[journal] Elturki, E. / 2016 / A cross-sectional investigation of the development of modality in English language learners' writing : A corpus-driven study / Issues in Applied Linguistics 20(0) : 51~72

[book] Halliday, M. / 2014 / An introduction to functional grammar / Routledge

[journal] Holmes, J. / 1988 / Doubt and certainty in ESL textbooks / Applied linguistics 9(1) : 21~44

[journal] Hyland, K. / 1998 / Boosting, hedging and the negotiation of academic knowledge / Text-Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 18(3) : 349~382

[journal] Hyland, K. / 2000 / Hedges, boosters and lexical invisibility : Noticing modifiers in academic texts / Language awareness 9(4) : 179~197

[journal] Jenkins, J. / 2009 / English as a lingua franca : Interpretations and attitudes / World Englishes 28(2) : 200~207

[book] Kasper, G. / 1993 / Interlanguage pragmatics / Oxford University Press

[journal] Kecskes, I. / 2015 / Intercultural impoliteness / Journal of Pragmatics 86 : 43~47

[journal] Lakoff, G. / 1973 / Hedges : A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts / Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 : 458~508

[journal] Lin, C. Y. / 2010 / ‘… that's actually sort of you know trying to get consultants in…’: Functions and multifunctionality of modifiers in academic lectures / Journal of Pragmatics 42(5) : 1173~1183

[journal] Low, G. / 1996 / Intensifiers and hedges in Questionnaire items and the lexical invisibility hypothesis / Applied Linguistics 17(1) : 1~37

[journal] 오선영 / 2007 / A Corpus-based Study of Epistemic Modalityin Korean College Students’ Writings in English / 영어교육 / 한국영어교육학회 62(2) : 147~175

[journal] 박혜선 / 2012 / Modality in Korean Learners’ Spoken Interlanguage / 영어어문교육 / 한국영어어문교육학회 18(1) : 197~216

[journal] Partington, A. / 2008 / Teasing at the White House : A corpus-assisted study of face work in performing and responding to teases / Text & Talk 28(6) : 771~792

[journal] Planken, B. / 2005 / Managing rapport in lingua franca sales negotiations : A comparison of professional and aspiring negotiators / English for Specific Purposes 24(4) : 381~400

[journal] Prince, E. F. / 1982 / On hedging in physician-physician discourse / Linguistics and the Professions 8(1) : 83~97

[journal] 표시연 / 2018 / Hedging in Korean EFL University Learners’ Writing with Focus on Stance Adverbials and Modals / 응용언어학 / 한국응용언어학회 34(2) : 3~30

[journal] Salager-Meyer, F. / 1994 / Hedges and textual communicative function in medical English written discourse / English for specific purposes 13(2) : 149~170

[book] Schmidt, R. / 1993 / Interlanguage pragmatics / Oxford University Press : 21~42

[journal] Suh, J. S. / 1999 / Pragmatic perception of politeness in requests by Korean learners of English as a second language / IRAL (International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching) 37(3) : 195~

[journal] Takimoto, M. / 2015 / Assertions and lexical invisibility in EFL learners' academic essays / Journal of Pragmatics 89 : 85~99

[journal] Yang, A. / 2015 / Epistemic modality in English-medium medical research articles : A systemic functional perspective / English for Specific Purposes 38 : 1~10

KJCKorea
Journal Central

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.57

A Corpus Analysis of Hedges in Lingua Franca English

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.57

A Corpus Analysis of Hedges in Lingua Franca English

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS

Statistics

Tools

Issue List

Citation status

KCI Citation Counts (0)

REFERENCES (27) * References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

Search PDF

Citation

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.