AMIN, MANJAYA (2016) HEDGES BY SAKI USED IN THE PEACE OFFERING SHORT STORY. Skripsi,Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.
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Abstract
Hedges are used to convey meaning, ideas, and attitude for someone. Generally, they are used in the spoken form. Eventually, there will be differences style between speaking and writing forms. As Vande Kople states that hedges are viewed showing lack of full commitment to the propositional content of an utterance. Speaker can use hedges to bargain their offerings to the hearer. The degree of probability can be shown in the hedges through the word: can, could, would, should, seem, etc. The authors may use hedges in their stories in order to make readers wanders within the stories. The aim of this study is to reveal the types and to describe the reason the hedges used in the characters of this short story. Moreover, this study wants to reveal the reason of hedges used in this short story. “The Peace Offering” is one of the short stories written by Saki. Saki has a lot of works which famous in the literary works. The data is selected from the book entitled Chronicles of Clovis. The steps to analyze the data are searching the data from the internet, reading the short story, finding the hedges, classifying the types of hedges, and finding the reason why the authors used those hedges within character’s utterances. The result shows that the types of hedges also used in those short story. The mostly hedges used are modal auxiliary verbs, such as might, can, could, would, and should. The other types of hedges belong to adjectival, adverbial, and nominal modal phrase; aproximators of degree, quantity, frequency, and time; and compound hedges. The reasons why the author used those hedges are showing the character meet the style of writing and short stories to show the reader how the reader speaking and writing form this shot story.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Universitas Dian Nuswantoro > Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa Inggris Z Literatur, Sastra > Bahasa Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Ilmu Budaya |
| Depositing User: | Psi Udinus |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2016 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2016 14:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.dinus.ac.id/id/eprint/19170 |
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