Mitigation as Communicative Tactics of Hedging Strategy.
Keywords:
strategy, tactics, mitigation, critics, criticism, author, review, hedgingAbstract
Mitigation is one of the tactics of communication strategy of hedging, which is aimed to mitigate the potentially negative impact on the recipient and reduce the danger of an invasion of privacy. Mitigation tactics is used when there is a risk to offend the author of original text. It is also used when there is a risk for an addressant to be biased because of his views on a particular issue. Different means of mitigation allow the reviewer to avoid conflict and correctly express criticism. There are lexical items in Ukrainian language which express approximation, doubtfulness and down-toning. These are adverbs, pronouns, adjectives and parenthesis. O. I. Bondar and Yu. O. Karpenko often use means of mitigation in the genre of scientific review for tactful discussion with the author of the original work and to express their thoughts.References
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