SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: E. Yu. Dubovitskaya
Abstract:
The article deals with the problem of expressing uncertainty with the help of words and expressions called hedges. They enable a speaker to express degree of category membership in defining different objects. The question of communicative strategies is also touched upon in the article.
Keywords: hedges, hedging, cognitive science, uncertainty, category membership, communicative strategies