This study aims to analyse the hedges usage as mitigating word in politeness
strategy within the language in online newspaper of New York Times and Al
Jazeera regarding the topic of the movement of U.S Embassy in Israel and the
issue of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel published on December 2017. This
study applied a synthesized classification by several linguists on hedging devices,
Vold’s test consisting of substitution, reformulation and syntactic test to test
linguistic expressions which act as hedges. Furthermore, it is analysed how the
word, phrases or clauses takes part in the strategies of politeness.
The result of this study indicates that the hedges are determined by the
lexical categories, phrases or clauses depending on the surrounding words, and
what is being delivered within the sentence. Most of the hedges are determined by
the use of lexical categories which weakens the author commitment and marks the
epistemic sense related to the degree of possibility. The most common lexical
category used as hedges is modal auxiliary verbs. Moreover, this study presents
that Vold’s test helps to determine which lexical categories that takes role as
hedges; however it also shows that this test is not applicable to determine some
phrases and clauses taking role as hedges. The situational and linguistic contexts
of the sentence are considered to be a helpful guide to determine the phrases or
clauses which act as the hedges. Furthermore, this study found that the use of
hedges does correlate with the politeness strategies that mitigate the face threat
towards the participant conveyed in the sentence.

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