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The paper deals with the concept of hedging in disagreements in selected US film dialogues, from pragmatic and culture-specific points of view, through the prism of qualitative politeness research. Following the introductory remarks on the linguistic phenomena of hedging and disagreement, as well as a socioculturally based description of the research corpus, the paper aims at providing representative examples of hedging viewedfrom a number of different, often conflicting, theoretical angles. These include the Cooperative Principle, modern approaches to politeness, self-politeness, identity-related aspects of rapport management, and a view of politeness as politic behaviour. The assumption is that the contradictory nature of hedging can best be accounted for by observing * E-mail address: olgapk@ff.uns.ac.rs 1 This paper is part of the research on Project No. 178002, entitled Languages and Cultures in Time and Space, which is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. Some of the theoretical observations in this paper are largely based on the analysis of the language material, as well as the discussion and conclusions presented in the author’s unpublished doctoral thesis (Panić Kavgić 2014).

Hedging in Disagreements in US Film Dialogues: A Sign of (Self-)Politeness, Politic Behaviour and an Identity Marker