Abstract:
The purpose is to identify pragmatic means for legitimizing knowledge in
modern English media discourse.
To achieve this goal, it is necessary to fulfil the following tasks:
- define the concept of hedging;
- to reveal the pragmatic functions of hedging in modern media discourse;
- to analyze the emotional influence of hedging in Modern English media
discourse;
- to provide a Qualitative Emotion Analysis of of the New York Times articles
titled “Armed Nationalists in Ukraine Pose a Threat Not Just to Russia” and “The
War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready”
- The work consists of Introduction, 7 subsections, General Conclusions,
Résumé, List of Illustration Materials and List of Reference Materials. There are 22
pages, 23 sources were used as reference materials and 2 sources were used as
illustration materials.
