Abstract
The way writers distinguish their opinions from facts and
figures and convey their message with certainty or uncertainty
is central in journalistic discourse. This study deals with the
certainty and uncertainty of the propositions thewriters make in
Urdu newspapers. A corpus of one millionwords is compiled to
find hedges and boosters in Urdu newspapers. The corpus is
analyzed to draw the results by using Hyland’s (2005a) model
of interaction as a theoretical framework. This study aims to
analyze metadiscourse interaction markers i.e. hedges and
boosters. The result shows that hedges are the interaction
markers with the highest frequency in Urdu newspapers which
suggests that uncertainty is a key feature in Urdu j
Dr. Behzad Anwar, Haroon Shafique. (2017) Certainty/Uncertainty as an Important Trait of Authorship: A Linguistic Analysis of Urdu Newspaper Discourse, Mayar , Volume 17-18 , Issue 2.
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