Abstract
This study tackles the analysis of translated hedges, in Trump’s political speeches and, interviews in the data, which have taken from three different political interviews of press conferences; that have conducted with U.S. President Donald Trump about coronavirus with their translations into Arabic. Therefore, the study has adopted Fraser’s classification of hedges and tries to apply it into the data. Moreover, the study has applied statistics to find out that illocutionary force hedges have widely used in Trump’s political speeches and interviews more than the propositional hedges according to Fraser’s classification of hedges. Thus, hedges can be considered as one of the most important linguistic phenomena because it can widely be used as a way of expressing points of view in political discourse. In addition to that, this linguistic phenomenon can be used by variety speakers of people in their daily life such as doctors, teachers, lawyers, but in particular politicians in their speeches, TV-interviews and press-conferences.
Highlights
This study tackles the analysis of translated hedges, in Trump’s political speeches and, interviews in the data, which have taken from three different political interviews of press conferences; that have conducted with U.S President Donald Trump about coronavirus with their translations into Arabic
From the above stated table, the study has found that the illocutionary force hedges according to Fraser’s classification; have widely used by president Trump in his press conferences, in that the (Impersonal pronouns) and (Modal verbs) have used about 15%, whereas (Epistemic verbs) and (Progressive form) have used about 10%. (Introductory phrases, Modal adverbs, Conditional subordinators, Conditional clause expressing uncertainty, and Metalinguistic comment) have used about 5%, but on the other hand, (Negation) has used about 26%; according to the above statistic, it is the most type of illocutionary force hedges that has used widely by Trump’s press conferences
The research has concluded the following: 1) Hedge can be defined as the rhetorical strategy by which the political speaker shows that there is a shortage of obligations to the truth value of the speech
Summary
Hedges is a linguistic phenomenon that has widely used in political texts, speeches, and interviews in both English and Arabic linguistic communities. 145) stated that the study of hedges refers to the phrases that signify the predicate of member of a noun phrase. Hedges presented in 1987 by Brown and Levinson It usually manages the form of propositional aspects of communication. 150) implied that purposive vagueness and tentativeness associated with hedges. According to Fraser, a participant presents a shortage of “commitment to the truth” conditioned of the speech
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