@phdthesis{eprintsunpak9450,
          school = {Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan},
          author = {Nurfajriani Devi},
           title = {METADISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF HEDGING USE
IN BACKGROUND OF RESEARCH PROPOSAL},
            year = {2021},
           month = {July},
             url = {http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9450/},
        abstract = {BSTRACT
Hedging plays a significant role in conveying the message of a text, since it
emphasizes the subjectivity of a statement by presenting it in the form of opinion.
Furthermore, the existence of meta-discourse creates communication in a text is
not only about exchanging information, but also involving the writers? and readers?
personalities, attitude and assumption. This research employs descriptive
qualitative method to figure out the use of three hedging types proposed by Meyer
(1994) in 10 last semester students? background of research proposal. This
research is guided by a single research question ?What types of hedging appeared
in background of the study of research proposal?? to accomplish the aim of this
research, which is to find out the types of hedging appeared in it. Moreover,
documentation, questionnaire, and interview are applied as the instruments to gain
the data of this research. Eventually, the result shows that two out of three types
of hedging are found in students? background of research proposal, which are
shields and approximators. Additionally, shields in the form of modal auxiliary
are the most frequently used in it.
Keywords: Meta-discourse analysis, hedging, background of the study, research
proposal.}
}