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ERIC Number: EJ1223227
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1916-4742
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Pragmatic Hedges in Court Trial: Indonesian Case
Fitri, Nidya; Artawa, Ketut; Satywati, Made Sri; Sawirman
English Language Teaching, v12 n8 p106-111 2019
The usage of hedges in trial discourse context is interested to be explored. This paper presents a description of phenomena related to the use of hedges by witnesses and experts in Indonesian court trial. It focuses on the usage of hedges in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and utterances in court trial context. Conversation among participants in court was taken as a corpus of this study. From the corpus, the data were collected in the form of transcription. Three-levels of hedges that classified by Lakoff (1973), Prince, et al. (1982), and Fraser (2010) were used to analyze the data. The analysis was also related to quantity maxim and quality maxim proposed by Grice maxim (1975). This study has shown that the usage of hedges in Indonesian was classified into propositional, approximator, and adjective hedges. They were used to show politeness as well as to hide the real meaning of their utterance.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
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