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华 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 II II can be carried on successfully. Violating one maxim is for the purpose of observing another maxim. From the corpus analysis the author discovers that the use of hedges is mainly an indication of observing quality maxim, relevance maxim or quantity maxim. Because hedges make the topic more fuzzy, hedges are signs of violating manner maxim. At last, based on the analysis of the hedges within Cooperative Principles framework, the author summarize the following functions of hedges in this corpus: proving right amount of information; withholding information deliberately; indicating the lack of specific information; self-protection; avoiding or shifting responsibility. With the use of hedges, the politicians can make their language seem cautious and polite so as to protect their good image in the heart of their people. Key words: hedges presidential debates Cooperative Principle 独创性声明 本人声明所呈交的学位论文是我个人在导师指导下进行的研究工作及取得的研 究成果。尽我所知，除文中已经标明引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其他个人或 集体已经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本文的研究做出贡献的个人和集体，均已在 文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到，本声明的法律结果由本人承担。 学位论文作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定，即：学校有权 保留并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文被查阅和借阅。 本人授权华中科技大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检 索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。 本论文属于 保密□ ，在 年解密后适用本授权书。 不保密□。 （请在以上方框内打“√”） 学位论文作者签名： 指导教师签名： 日期： 年 月 日 日期： 年 月 日 华 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 PAGE 10 PAGE 10 Introduction Fuzziness is one of the most important features of natural languages. This language phenomenon is present in a great deal of language use. But the research on it was just initiated by Professor Zadeh in 1965. He proposes the fuzzy set theory, which is capable of dealing with degrees of set membership. According to his fuzzy set theory, some set members can not be included or excluded totally in a set, but belong to a set to a certain degree. The study of fuzziness has laid a foundation for the later study of hedges. As an important member of fuzzy language, hedge has received a lot of attention from the