Facework in a Faceless Environment : A Contrastive Analysis of Hedges in Readers' Comments on Political and Personal Issues in E-newspapers
The present study investigates the use of hedging devices in the readers’ comment section of the newspaper The Guardian Online. Two comment sections were chosen for the contrastive study: ‘Politics’ in the subsection ‘Comment is free’ and the series ‘Problem solved’ in the subsection ‘Life and style...
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Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen
2013
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-103407 |