余盛明编著的《英语缓冲语的语用发展(精)》以发展语用学为基本理论框架，对英语缓冲语的语用发展做了较为全面细致的论述与研究。国际上，发展语用学的研究基本上都是以言语行为和语篇能力为研究对象，而本书则深入到缓冲语的语用能力（即对言语行为和语篇的修饰能力）发展研究，为发展语用学和语际语用学拓宽了研究领域。本书可供英语教育老师和研究人员，语言学和应用语言学研究生参考学习。

Acknowledgements

前言

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction

 1.1 Interlanguage Pragmatic Development

 1.2 Hedging in ILP Development

 1.3 Plan of the Book

Chapter 2 Interlanguage Pragmatic Development: Review

 and Methodology

 2.1 Reviewing L2 Pragmatic Development

 2.1.1 Development of L2 Discourse Ability

 2.1.2 Development of L2 Speech-Act Ability

 2.2 Methodological Issues with ILP Developmental Studies

 2.2.1 Corpus Approach to ILP Development

 2.2.2 Emergence Pattern as Indicator of Development

 2.3 Chapter Summary

Chapter 3 An Overview of Hedging Studies in the

 Literature

 3.1 Development of the Concept of Hedging

 3.2 Studies of Hedges in Academic Writing

 3.3 Studies of Hedges in Spoken Discourse

 3.4 Studies on Hedge Comprehension

 3.5 Studies on L2 Learners' Hedges

 3.6 Taxonomy of Hedges in the Literature

Chapter 4 Theoretical Framework for the Study

 4.1 Grammatical, Pragmatic and Semantic Properties of

 Hedges

 4.2 Establishing Hedging Categories for the Study

 4.2.1 Modal Hedges

 4.2.2 Mental Hedges and Performative Hedges

 4.2.3 Pragmatic-Marker Hedges

 4.2.4 Quantificational Hedges

 4.2.5 Section Summary

 4.3 Criteria and Guidelines for Hedge Identification

Chapter 5 Research Design and Data Collection

 5.1 Research Questions

 5.2 Participants in the Study

 5.3 Instruments for Data Collection

 5.3.1 Rationale for Instrument Making

 5.3.2 Instrument Design and Piloting

 5.4 Data Collection

Chapter 6 Data Analyses

 6.1 Data Coding

 6.2 Hedge Categories Emerging from the Data

 6.3 Hedge Identification and Related Problems

 6.3.1 Analyzing Modal Shields

 6.3.2 Analyzing Quantificational Approximators and NI

 Approximators

 6.3.3 Analyzing Performative Shields

 6.3.4 Analyzing Pragmatic-Marker Hedges

Chapter 7 Results

 7.1 Development in Quantificational Approximators

 7.1.1 Quantificational Approximators at JH Level

Chapter 8 Discussion

Chapter 9 Conclusion

References

Appendix