Statement of the Problem Scope Of The Study Objective of the Study

similar to the social function of exposition, discussion, or narrative genre. Nowdays, gossip could be find in magazine, newspaper, gossip tv programs, until gossip website. In writing gossip articles, the writer usually uses technical terms that used for minimizing wrong opinions from the writer. That technical terms call hedges. Hedges can be find in pragmatic theory. Lakoff 1972 : 54 states that hedges is words whose job it is to make things more or less fuzzy. The data of this research is downloaded from buzzfeed.com. It is a kind of gossip news articles website . Buzzfeed.com contains with a lot of gossip articles from celebrities, politicians, and much of the latest issues from holywood lifestyle. The writer of Buzzfeed gossip website uses hedges in this website gossip articles. In this research, the researcher is interesed in the hedges that contain in gossip arti les fro uzzfeed. o . The ai topi of the gossip arti les is Kesha V“ Dr.Luke . Kesha V“ Dr. Luke gossip arti les is reporting about Kesha sex and mentally abusing by Dr. Luke, her music producer for years since she was eighteen years old. Even the topic of those articles containing with sex and mentally abusing, hedges makes those articles more politely to read and i i ize the ro gfull a usatio . That is the resear her’s reaso to e a i e the hedges used i uzzfeed. o Kesha V“ Dr. Luke gossip arti les a d to proof those gossip articles has the reasons of using hedges along with hedges taxonomies.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

The statement of the problem in this research can be stated as follows: 1. What are the t pes of hedges used i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip arti les from buzzfeed.com ? 2. What is the do i a t t pe of hedges used i Kesha V“ Dr. Luke gossip articles from buzzfeed.com ? 3. What are the reaso s of usi g hedges i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip articles from buzzfeed.com?

1.3 Scope Of The Study

Scope of the study is used to keep this research in a track and to avoid the overlaping of data analysis. It can be stated as follows : 1. This resear h is fo used i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip arti les fro buzzfeed.com. As the data of this research, the gossip articles that was downloaded from Buzzfeed.com is focusing in sexual and mental abuse case. That ase as take fro Buzzfeed.Co gossip arti les ith the headli e Kesha s Dr.Luke . That headli e is reporti g a out a pop si ger Kesha ith her fa ous si gle tik- tok ho has ee a i ti of se ual a d e tall a usi g by her music produc er Lukasz Gott ald Dr. Luke for ears si e she as at age 18. 2. This research is focused to find the hedges used and the reasons of using hedges i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip arti les fro uzzfeed. o usi g the framework proposed by Iragiliati 2007 and Salager – Myer 1997 .

1.4 Objective of the Study

According to the statement of the study of this research, the objectives of the study can be stated as follows : 1. To fi d out the t pe of hedges used i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip arti les from buzzfeed.com. The hedges used which has function to make those gossip articles more or less understandable for the readers. 2. To fi d out the do i a t t pe of hedges used i Kesha V“ Dr. Luke gossip articles. 3. To find out the reasons of using he dges i Kesha V“ Dr.Luke gossip articles from buzzfeed.com. The reasons why using hedges is needed in those gossip articles.

1.5 Significance of the Study