HEDGE AS MITIGATION DEVICES IN THE NOVEL “KETIKA CINTA BERTASBIH”

This paper will analyze one of mitigation device type in the novel “Ketika Cinta Bertasbih”. It focuses on hedge, how it works as mitigation device. Hedge in this paper is to show how the speaker can save his or her utterance because of uncertain utterance. It will be divided into two classes according to Fraser (2010), propositional hedging and speech act hedging. These classes will help the speaker utters something and will achieve speaker’s goal easier. Finally, the aims of this paper are to find the function, the perlocutionary act of hedge and to find hedge as a mitigation devices in conversation to achieve speaker’s goal easier and to save his or her utterance because of uncertain utterance.