Meta-functions and Pragmatic Analysis of Hedges in International Business Negotiations
Fumeng Gao · Journal of Changchun University · 2012
Hedges are composed of approximators and shields,which,under the framework of systemic-functional grammar,can be used to modify the true value of a proposition at the semantic level and promote linguistic acceptability,to ensure a win-win international business negotiation at the pragmatic level and to signal macrostructures of a proposition at the discourse level.