Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates
JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSISCilt 2015/3, Sayı 1
To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances …