A Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges in Chinese and American Spokespersons’ Remarks at Press Conference

• 作者: GAO Ting
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: critical discourse analysis spokesperson’s remarks HEDGE Fairclough’s three-dimensional model IDEOLOGY
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 584-590
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Hedging is a communication strategy frequently used by the spokespersons at the press conference.This thesis intends to find out the ideologies hidden behind those hedges under the guidance of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model.As a research method of linguistics,critical discourse analysis(CDA)aims to reveal the the relationship among language,power and ideology hidden behind the language.This thesis adopts Prince’classification criteria of hedges to identify and count the different types of hedges in the research data selected from Chinese and American government websites.The analysis is conducted at the following three steps:description,interpretation and explanation.The first stage is to recognize and count the hedges in two languages,then to find their similarities and differences and the last step is to find possible reasons for those similarities and differences and the ideologies behind the hedges.Analysis results show that differences in culture values and diplomatic ideology contribute to the different ideologies.