CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Objectives
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Organization of the dissertation

CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 The concept of hedge
2.2 Women’s use of hedges and powerless language
2.3 Linguistic politeness and hedges
2.4 Mitigation and hedges
2.5 The functions of hedges
2.6 Modality and hedges
2.7 Speech acts and hedges
2.8 Hedges as a negative politeness vs. hedges as a positive politeness
2.9 Korean sentence enders and discourse modality

CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY AND DATA

3.1 Data collection and methodology
3.2 Yoon’s data overview
3.3 Summary

CHAPTER 4 THE CLASSIFICATION AND FREQUENCY OF KOREAN

HEDGES IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE
4.1 Classification of Korean hedges in spoken discourse
4.2 Frequency of Korean hedges in spoken discourse
4.3 Summary

CHAPTER 5 SOCIOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF INTERACTIVE SENTENCE ENDERS

5.1 Sociopragmatic factor analysis
5.2 Summary of sociopragmatic analysis of seven ISEs
5.3 Re-examination of two major findings
5.4 Summary

CHAPTER 6 PRAGMALINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED HEDGES

6.1 Pragmalinguistic analysis of ISE -canha(yo)
6.2 Pragmalinguistic analysis of ISE -ketun(yo)
6.3 Summary

CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION

7.1 General remarks
7.2 Summary of findings
7.3 Pedagogical implications
7.4 Suggestions for future studies

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