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- Title
Comparison of Hedges in Women Writings.
- Authors
Tamta, Pawan; Bisht, Mamta; Pande, Bhagwati Prasad
- Abstract
The present work is an attempt to develop a database of hedges to study the usage and effects of hedges in women writings. 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', a work of eighteenth century British-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft is compared with a 1970 book 'The Female Eunuch' by Germaine Greer. To exploit the functions of linguistic devices of hedges, frequently used hedges in most cited articles are categorized on the basis of the paradigms proposed by Hyland and Yu. Frequencies of various hedges are counted through a computer program written in 'C' language. Every hedge category is given a weight and the highest weight category is identified through the program in the selected corpus. The research further points out the validation of the usage of hedges in the works of non-fictional literature.
- Subjects
HEDGE (Linguistics); WOMEN'S writings; VINDICATION of the Rights of Woman, A (Book : Wollstonecraft); FEMALE Eunuch, The (Book); WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797
- Publication
Glottotheory, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1337-7892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/glot-2017-0002