LINGUISTIC RELATIVISM OF CRITIC THROUGH INDIRECT HEDGES IN SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

The object of this research is the pragmatic phenomenon called "linguistic hedging". During oral or written communication, the speaker of a language often uses words or phrases which he differentiates, makes weaker or uses relativism in his speech. Firstly, it will be explained in details what "hedging" and its purpose is. Afterwards, based on a corpus of scientific reviews in German and Albanian language, there are given examples of "hedges" in linguistic relativism and there are analyzed cultural differences of linguistic relativism of critic in scientific reviews. In relation to this issue, in the chosen corpus, there is analyzed whether the critic is shown relative or strong. Naturally, the critic is manifested in different forms and in different linguistic forms (through adjectives, adverbs of manner, ironic expressions, metaphors, similes etc)14 which are not all treated in this article.