Based on four interviews with politicians from February to October in 2006, this paper
attempts to provide a closer look at hedge strategies. In order to save face, evade …

This research applied a descriptive-qualitative method. The researcher collects the data by
transcribes second to third Trump-Hillary Presidential Debate into transcription text. After …

Discourse. It uses the EF Prince, J. Frader &C. Bosk theory (1982) and adopts qualitative
and quantitative methods. It investigates the former President George W. Bush‟ s Speech …

The study aims at analyzing politeness and gender around the postponement of election
discourse in the Rosi Talk Show (RTS). This qualitative study applies a pragmatic approach …

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 …

This investigation utilizes the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to analyze
the first-ever televised presidential debates in Taiwan in 2004. Millions of people watch, and …

Presidential debates have become a pre-election fixture in Taiwan since the first-ever
televised presidential debate held in 2004. In the 2012 Taiwan presidential election, it was a …

The purpose of this thesis was to explore hedges in political discourse, ie political speeches.
Two types of political speeches were subjected to analysis: pre-election and postelection …

A critical approach to media discourse analysis sheds light on the way that individuals and
institutions maintain certain ideologies in spite of the apparent neutrality of journalistic …

A look at the research literature on Political Linguistics reveals that there has been
considerable research on vagueness, evasion, equivocation, and deception in the speech of …