Pragmatic Functions of Hedges in Business Letters

作     者：刘璐璐 

作者机构：东北师范大学吉林长春130024 

出 版 物：《海外英语》 (Overseas English)

年 卷 期：2013年第14期

页      面：249-251页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：hedges business letters pragmatic function 

摘      要：The aim of the present research to explore the hedges used English business letters. Several samples have been chosen to make qualitative study in order to achieve the goal of answering the following question: what are the pragmatic functions of hedges being used in business letters? After analyzing the samples, the conclusion could be came that the employment of hedges in business letters has three pragmatic functions-giving the right amount of information, being polite and self-production.