Evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time

The paper examines evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time in the British House of Commons and in the Australian House of Representatives. It analyses the usage of evasion and hedging, and briefly investigates the relation between these two linguistic phenomena. Moreover...

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Main Author: Lukáš Nevrkla
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta 2017-10-01
Series:Linguistica Pragensia
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Online Access:https://sites.ff.cuni.cz/linguisticapragensia/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/LP_2017-2_Nevrkla_83-95.pdf