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1.1 Research background
模糊，自然语言和语言学的一个不可或缺的基本特征，吸引了很多学者的兴趣在20世纪中期。这是在美国，著名数学家，谁在他的文章中首先介绍了模糊集理论的模糊集理论解释：在1965年的语言对冲LA扎德。从这时起，在国内和国外的学者越来越多的努力，集中他们的研究从多方面含糊。乔治·拉科夫（1972）提出的洛杉矶对冲疑心确切的定义，他的观点主要集中在语义层面。后来，扩展到语用方面的主要研究，语言学等，目前，对冲和使用他们的动机的研究已经发现但在政治文章，经济对话，英语新闻报道，法律文件和外交文本等，对冲英语求职信的研究相对较少，没什么好说之间的对比研究两种不同的语料库。对冲是能够在交流的过程中输送各种消息。不同类型的对冲就业，可以帮助用户实现多种用途。虽然求职信正式文本，有很多达到特殊的目的而采取的对冲。因此，这是十分必要的分析从这个角度看，对冲应该进行，其中包括频率的异同以及对冲分布在ECL ENS和ECL中国英语学习者，通过合作原则和礼貌原则，对冲的语用功能等。Vagueness, as an indispensible and essential feature of natural language and linguistics, drew plenty ofscholars’ interest in the middle of twentieth century. It was L.A. Zadeh, a famous mathematician inAmerica, who introduced fuzzy-set theory firstly in his article A Fuzzy Set: Theoretic Interpretation oflinguistic hedges in 1965. From then on, a growing number of scholars both at home and abroadendeavored to focus their study on vagueness from many aspects. George Lakoff (1972) proposed arelatively exact definition of hedges and his points were mainly at the semantic level. Later on, the studywas extended into aspects of pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, etc.Presently, study of hedges and their motivations for use has been found in political articles, economicdialogue, English news report, law papers and diplomatic texts, etc. However, studies of hedges in Englishcover letters are relatively few, to say nothing of a contrastive study between two different corpora. Hedgesare capable of conveying various messages in the process of communication. The employment of differenttypes of hedges may help users achieve multiple purposes. Though cover letters are formal texts, there areplenty of hedges adopted to achieve special purposes. Thus, it is of great necessity that analysis of hedgesfrom this perspective should be carried out, which includes the similarities and differences of the frequencyand distribution of hedges in ECL by ENS and ECL by Chinese EFL learners, the adoption of co-operationprinciples and politeness principles, the pragmatic functions of hedges and so on.

1.2 Research significance
Up to now, a variety of researches on hedges have been conducted in different literature genres fromsemantic, stylistic, grammatical aspects, etc. However, few researches center on a contrastive analysis ofhedges in English cover letters written by both Chinese EFL learners and English native speakers. Thepresent study is worthy of conduction for the following factors.Firstly, by contrastive analysis, which chiefly deals with the similarities and differences in thefrequency and the distribution of hedges in ECL by ENS and ECL by Chinese EFL learners, the presentstudy can enrich further researches of hedge. Secondly, by analysis of pragmatic strategies, the study ofhedges in English cover letters could widen our knowledge of hedges. Thirdly, the research is illustrative inachieving desired communication between cover letter writers and cover letter viewers. Lastly, thepragmatic analysis of hedges in ECL by ENS and ECL by Chinese EFL learners is beneficial to theimprovement of the communicative strategies while applicants apply for jobs.

1.3 Research objectives
Built on E. P. Prince (1982)’s classification of hedges, this research aims to achieve the followinggoals
(1) Firstly, the study identifies all the hedges occurring in ECL by ENS and ECL by Chinese EFLlearner本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。