AN ANALYSIS OF HEDGES USED BY THE ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM LECTURERS AND STUDENTS IN PROPOSAL SEMINARS

This research aimed at analyzing Hedges Employed by English Education Study
Program Lecturers and Students in Proposal Seminars. The data was collected from
the lecturers‟ and students‟ utterances. The data was analyzed and classified based on
Beugrande (1985) and Crystal (1996) theory. The finding shows that there were
several types of hedges employed. The types consist of opinion hedges, statement
hedges, group one and group two hedges. As result, opinion hedges were the most
frequently used by the lecturers, especially for the expression of I think (35,9%).
Meanwhile looks like, perhaps, basically and feel appeared once (2,6 %) and become
the most infrequently hedges expressions used by the lecturers. Differ from the
lecturers, the students employed I mean (42,9%) as the most frequently used hedges
expressions, like and actually which appeared twice (14,3%) became the infrequently
used hedges expressions.