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A Contrastive Analysis of Hedges In Chinese and English Legislative Languages 中英立法语言中模糊限制语的对比研究 By Hao Changxia Under the Supervision of Professor Zhang Yiming A Thesis Submitted to the College of Foreign Languages of Shanghai Maritime University In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the MA Degree Shanghai Maritime University May 10th, 2009  Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Zhang Yiming in Shanghai Maritime University, who inspired and encouraged me throughout the writing of the present thesis. The completion of the thesis could never have been possible without his precious guidance and constructive suggestions. Second, I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to my boyfriend, who was always ready to give me his opinions and support. He taught me how to make good use of the computer software tools with great patience, which was a very great help for me, especially when making the quantitative analysis of the data during the research of the present thesis. Last but not least, I would like to thank all my roommates, with whom I share the pain and pleasure of writing the thesis. It helped me ease the stress during the writing and keep a good mood so as to finish the present thesis smoothly.  ABSTRACT Accuracy and preciseness is always regarded as the soul of the legislative language and people believes that legislative language is clear and precise all the time. While research findings after the birth of fuzzy linguistics show that, vague words or phrases could also be found in this kind of language. This paper is written exactly based on such findings. Since vague language is a big family. This paper chooses hedges, a member of the vague language family, as the research focus to make a contrastive analysis on how they are used in both the English and Chinese legislative languages. And the corpora in English and Chinese are Labor Regulation of Washington State and Labo