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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis research discussed about hedges and the types of hedges or
taxonomies of hedges on maxims of cooperative principle. The data of this thesis
was a novel entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling and
the source of data were 150 sentences containing hedges found in the novel. The
theories used were hedges by Yule, the taxonomy of hedges by Salager-Meyer,
and maxims of cooperative principle by Grice. This thesis used descriptive
quantitative approach as its approach. In collecting the data, the writer used a table
which classified hedges into its taxonomies. For the data analysis, the writer
analyzed the data based on the taxonomies in details. After analyzing hedges
based on the taxonomies, the writer also analyzed the taxonomies in relation with
maxims of cooperative principle in details. There were six types or taxonomies of
hedges out of seven types found out by the writer in her data. The data showed
that most of the types of hedges functioned as the sign of speaker?s tentativeness
or uncertainty. Modal auxiliary verbs had the biggest number of occurrence while
compound hedges and introductory phrases had the smallest number of
occurrence in the data. The researcher also found that out of four maxims of
cooperative principle, only two of the maxims were related to six types of hedges
the writer had found before. The two maxims were maxim of quality and manner.