This paper assesses the extent to which the expected disclosure to peers of an individual
investor's financial performance influences his/her stock-trading decisions. In a lab experiment, …

This chapter assesses the extent to which the expected disclosure to peers of an individual
investor’s financial performance influences his/her stocktrading decisions. In a lab experiment…

… In this paper examples of one such practice, namely, strategic embarrassment, where the
speaker attempts to embarrass the addressee into doing what he or she wants by topicalising …

… -hedges. It was found that, after study abroad, learners used a wider variety of hedges and
did … use socially motivated fillers to fill potential silence and avoid potential embarrassment, to …

… use of the linguistic devices known as ‘hedges’ by linguists. These are … hedge’, as in ‘to
hedge your bets’, where ‘hedge’ means roughly ‘to avoid taking decisive action’. When we hedge …

… We avoided defining embarrassment so as not to hedge-in parents with what they might view
as artificial restrictions. As expected, the absence of defining criteria forced us to screen the …

… embarrassment to the patient, and negative politeness strategies (eg, being indirect, using
hedging, or … that discussing sensitive topics could cause embarrassment to patients, with the …

Objective To identify factors influencing patient responses in potentially sensitive situations
that might lead to embarrassment (defined by politeness theory (PT) as positive face-…

This paper studies the phenomenon of hedging in press briefing . It begins with the introduction
that introduces different definitions of the term for different writers and linguists in order to …