(2021) Деде. Юлия Владимировна; Деде, Юлія Володимирівна; Dede, Yuliia V.
The article analyzes the communicative tactics realizing the communicative strategy of hedging. The material under analysis is represented by 145 speech episodes taken from English literary discourse in which characters avoid explicit answers to questions. A classification of ten communicative tactics realizing the communicative strategy of hedging has been offered.