Hedges and Qualifiers | Liar, Liar
We complete the barrier object series with our final entry: hedges and qualifiers. These rhetorical tidbits come in many forms. The terms “hedge” and “qualifier”… Read More »Hedges and Qualifiers | Liar, Liar
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Hedging with Modals and Modifiers
Nestled among the marked (or “dispreferred”) behaviors of discourse we find a lovely little linguistic feature known as “hedging.” Hedging is the default refuge of… Read More »Hedging with Modals and Modifiers