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taring into the bathroom mirror."-- Kate Winslet
"I think" and "probably" are used to show the winner can't remember the exact age of her obscure memory. The advantage of the two plausibility shields is to avoid mistakes, confirm to quality and quantity principle and reflect the objective facts.
Same with both of the parties in the contradictory transferring with each other under certain conditions, language, whether scientific language or daily language, have both accurate expressions and vague concepts. This contradiction could transfer into the opposite under certain conditions, which means the vague surface is to make the session more accurate in reality.
5.2 Showing courtesy
Courtesy is the basic requirement of interpersonal communication. To keep good interpersonal relationships is closely related to courtesy. As Leech's politeness principle explains, taking politeness into consideration, the speaker would violate the principles of cooperation to achieve expressing one's true thoughts implicitly effect. From the perspective of politeness, women's using the high frequency of hedges has become a common verbal communication strategy. Zhang Xiaohui (2009) thought that hedges were widely used in the female utterance. That weakens the speaker's tone to a certain extent, which looks more polite and more easily accepted by the listener in order to maintain a harmonious, good communication relationship. As all the speakers are the public figures in the film entertainment, the more the public require speakers' image, the higher the degree of politeness reaches. The winners will use hedges frequently in the respect of politeness principle so as to show courtesy in public to a greater degree. As a result, under the circumstance of expressing clearly, trying to avoid imposing their views on others and arbitrary helps improve the appropriateness and acceptability of discourse, thereby enhancing the strength and validity of persuasion as well as avoiding losing others' face.
Brown and Levinson proposed the saving-face theory. The so-called "face" is actually "personal image". Every member of society areurgent to earn for their own desire in public. It can be divided into the positive face and negative face. To be polite is to relieve threat of some communication. All in all, the use of hedges can make the speaker seem more polite, modest and dignified. Due to the particularity of speakers' identity and the spread of communication, it's necessary for them to blur their attitude or view in the enhancement of the acceptability and politeness of discourse.
（9）"Gabby, I love you so much. You are exquisite. You are beyond words to me."-- Sandra Bullock
（10）"Helen, I feel like we are family through family and I don't have the words to express just what I think of you."-- Sandra Bullock
In the two sentences above, winners use a series of hedges "so much", "beyond words", "I feel like", "just" and "I think of", when they refer to the competitors. In compliance with generosity maxim and approbation maxim, it fully embodies women appreciation of opponents in avoidance of hurting others' face.
5.3 Self-protection and Self-presenting
It is quite easy for women to run into awkward situation when talking about life, emotion and kind of sensitive topics. At this point, the pr