Table 8.3: Frequency of occurrence of five hedges across SettCorp and TravCorp
Hedge
SettCorp
TravCorp
like
19
0
I think
16
0
just
14
1
you know
13
2
actually
11
0
Total
73
3
Table 8.3 clearly shows that these five hedges have a far higher frequency in
SettCorp than in TravCorp, however, as the individual analysis of the five hedges
will illustrate, their frequency of occurrence in SettCorp is often well below other
context types (see, for example,
just
in Section 8.2.3). Due to the fact that SettCorp
is larger than TravCorp, the items have been individually normalised per 10,000
words in Figure 8.2:
220
Figure 8.2: Frequency of items functioning as hedges in SettCorp and TravCorp, normalised
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