| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第1-18页 |
| ·What is fuzziness? | 第10-12页 |
| ·Exploring the concepts of hedge and hedging: From Semantics to Pragrnatics | 第12-16页 |
| ·The concept and definition of hedge/hedging | 第12-14页 |
| ·Hedging as an Increase in Fuzziness | 第14-15页 |
| ·Hedging as a Decrease in Fuzziness | 第15-16页 |
| ·Outline of this thesis | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER 2 A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF RELEVANT LITERATURE | 第18-31页 |
| ·The origin and development of the concepts of 'hedge' and 'hedging' | 第18-26页 |
| ·L.A.Zadeh's Study of hedges | 第18-20页 |
| ·Lakoff's Study of Hedging | 第20-23页 |
| ·Post-Lakoff's Study of Hedging | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Study of Hedging in China | 第26-31页 |
| ·Wu Tieping's Study of Hedges | 第26-29页 |
| ·The study of hedging in China | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THE CLASSIFICATION AND LINGUISTIC REALIZATION OF HEDGING | 第31-43页 |
| ·The Classification of Hedging | 第31-37页 |
| ·Prince et al.'s Classification of Hedges | 第31-34页 |
| ·Hǖbler's classification of hedges | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Linguistic Realization of Hedging | 第37-42页 |
| ·A working Definition of Hedging | 第42-43页 |
| CHAPTER 4 PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF HEDGING | 第43-60页 |
| ·Hedging as a pragmatic phenomenon with an interpersonal function | 第43-44页 |
| ·Hedging and Conversational Implicature | 第44-45页 |
| ·Hedging and Cooperative Principle | 第45-51页 |
| ·Grice's Cooperative Principle(CP) | 第45-47页 |
| ·Hedging and the Maxim of Cooperative Principle | 第47-51页 |
| ·Hedging and Politeness Principle, FTA Theory | 第51-60页 |
| ·Politeness Principle and FTA Theory | 第52-55页 |
| ·Hedging as an Interpersonal Politeness Strategy | 第55-57页 |
| ·Contexts and interpretation of pragmatic functions of hedging | 第57-60页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第60-69页 |
| ·Major Findings of This Thesis | 第60-63页 |
| ·Some Principal Issues of Hedging | 第60-63页 |
| ·Issues for further discussion | 第63-69页 |
| ·Applications of hedging research in the field of applied linguistics | 第63-67页 |
| ·Pragmatic analysis of hedging in different fields and genres | 第67-68页 |
| ·Hedging studies from the hearer's/reader's point of view | 第68-69页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第69-71页 |
