[Air-l] a ps on hedges

A PS on hedges -- is the interest in written text or spoken text or e-text? there will be some methodological differences concerning the analysis for each. Ken Hyland, for example, has some extremely interesting discussions of hedging in written text. There is, as this discussion suggests, more controversy in how to interpret hedges in spoken, transcribed, and electronic text. More recently, several of us have been considering hedges to be part of stance analysis. Boyd Davis