Pratiwi, Tia Ayu (2014) HEDGES USED IN “YOUR LETTER” OF THE JAKARTA POST DATED JUNE 9TH-14TH, 2014. Undergraduate thesis, UNIVERSITY OF STIKUBANK SEMARANG.
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Abstract
This research paper is entitled Hedges Used in “Your Letter” The Jakarta Post.The objectives of the study are to describe the types of the hedges that are mostly used in “Your Letter” of The Jakarta Post and to find out the reason why the writer used the hedges in “Your Letter” of The Jakarta Post. As a descriptive research, the study was conducted by collecting any relevant data and information about the topic or problem of the study. The data collection used the following steps: searching the on-line newspapers which are required for the research, choosing newspapers that are required, and documenting the data collection. Observing words and phrase written in “Your Letter”. The researcher analyzed sentences that have hedging particles, words, and phrases used in “Your Letter” of The Jakarta Post dated April, 9th-14th June. This study focuses on the hedges used in “Your Letter” of The Jakarta Post. In this research, there are 18 texts from 6 data which have 176 hedges. The first domination is modal auxiliary verb; there are 95 hedges or 53,98 %. The second domination is approximators of degree, quantity, frequency and time with 55 hedges or 31,25%. The third domination is modal auxiliary lexical and if clause; there are 13 hedges or 7,39%. The researcher does not find any hedges in adjectival, adverbial and nominal modal phrases; introductory phrases and compound hedges. Moreover, the researcher not only find the type of the hedges but also the function of the hedges. In the research, the reason for minimizing the “thread-to-face” becomes the first domination in the data; there are 95 hedges or 53,98%. The hedges show tentativeness. The second domination is being way of being more precise in reporting result with 55 hedges or 31,25%, the third domination is conforming to an established writing style with 26 hedges or 14,77%. The researcher does not find any function of being positive or negative politeness strategies.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
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| Additional Information: | nim : 12.03.52.0044 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | article, function, hedges, pragmatic |
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| Depositing User: | Hary Iskandar |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2014 02:32 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2014 02:32 |
| URI: | https://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/2152 |
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