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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is carried out to find out types and functions of hedges in Hillary Clinton?s
interview entitled Expanding the U.S. - Indonesian Dialogue. Hillary Clinton is one
of the inspiring women nowadays. Considering her existence to inspire people
especially women, this pragmatics study attempts to find the types, functions, and
type in relation to each function in Clinton?s utterances. The theory that is applied to
find type of hedges is the taxonomy of hedges by Salager-Meyer (1997), while the
theory of multiple functions by Jennifer Coates (1996) is applied to find functions of
hedges. It is found that Clinton?s utterances contain a lot of hedges, classified into
seven types and four functions of hedges. The most frequent type is Introductory
Phrases. The second most frequent is approximators of degree, quantity, frequency
and time. The following are modal auxiliary, adjectival, adverbial, excluding nominal
phrases, compound hedges, "if" clauses, and modal lexical verbs. In addition, noun as
one of types of hedges that could not be found. Furthermore, functions of hedges that
appear the most is expressing doubt, which is followed by searching for the right
word, avoiding playing the expert, sensitivity to other?s feeling, and expressing
confidence. In addition, it is found that one type can have more than one function
depending on the context. Besides, the findings reveal certain types of hedges are
used in relation to each function. Although, the result reveals that Hillary uses hedges
to express doubt the most frequently, it can not be concluded that she is lack of
confidence. This might due to her role as the representative of United of States that
she has to be careful in giving statements.