Pragmatic Competence for L2 Learners: The Case of Maybe, Perhaps, and Possibly as Hedging Terms

摘要: The construct of hedging is a significant part the native speaker’s intuition used to indicate different degrees un/certainty and mark various levels likelihood. This paper explores use three sentence adverbs, maybe, perhaps, possibly, in terms their pragmatic differences spite great deal overlap semantic structure when hedge propositions. devices highly affected by parameters the: formality, positiveness, possibility. In addition, behave similarly sense that they occur direct questions but not imperatives or comparative structures have no corresponding negative forms. They are being derived from an adjective rephrased with cognate word occurring initially requests after intensifiers. Appropriate among difficult aspects learning second/foreign language even for those who achieved advanced level proficiency L2.