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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges.

Hedge (Linguistics) --- Euphemism --- Pragmatics --- Euphemism. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- Hedging (Linguistics) --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Figures of speech --- Semantics --- Linguistics --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Hedge (Linguistics) - Congresses --- Euphemism - Congresses --- Pragmatics - Congresses

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The articles in this volume present contemporary and original research on linguistic meaning, concept formation and conceptual analysis. A central theme across the articles is the question of how concepts are structured, how they are represented in the mind, and how they are expressed in language. Two introductory papers on concept types and frames set out the crucial role of attributes and frames for the representation of concepts. The topics of the contributions range from the interrelation between determination and reference of nominal expressions, the verbal and adjectival expression of attributes, and the analysis of metonymy to the frame-based representation of action-related concepts and the classification of mental disorders in psychiatry. The collection of articles provided by this volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of mind, and the cognitive sciences.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Action-Frames. --- Alexander Tokar. --- Alexander Ziem. --- Associative Anaphora. --- Barsalou Frames. --- Brigitte Schwarze. --- Christian Horn. --- Cognitive Frames. --- Cognitive Linguistic. --- Concept Frames. --- Concept Types. --- Concept of FEAR. --- Definiteness Effect. --- Determination. --- Diachrony. --- Experimental Method. --- Frame Theory. --- FrameNet. --- French. --- Functional Concepts. --- Functional Frames. --- Gerhard Schurz. --- Gottfried Vosgerau. --- Hana Filip. --- Hans Geisler. --- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. --- Irem Girgin. --- Irene Russo. --- Italian Nouns. --- Julia Weiland. --- Jürgen Zielasek. --- Karin Fauerbach. --- Laura Kallmeyer. --- Liane Ströbel. --- Linguistic Realizations. --- Manner Adjectives. --- Metonymic Euphemism. --- Michael T. Stuart. --- New Classification. --- Nominal Concept Types. --- Non-Intersectivity. --- Nouns across Languages. --- Peter Indefrey. --- Possessive Constructions. --- Psychiatric Classification. --- Representation of Concepts. --- Representation of Frames. --- Robert D. van Valin. --- Ryo Oda. --- SFB 991. --- Sarah Jungbluth. --- Sascha Alexeyenko. --- Sebastian Löbner. --- Stative Dimensional Verbs. --- The definite article. --- Tim Seuchter. --- Tommaso Caselli. --- Wolfgang Gaebel. --- Yoshiki Mori. --- Yuko Kobukata.