Strategic avoidance of explicitness in newspaper articles

الملخص EN

The current paper investigates strategic avoidance of explicitness employed in newspaper articles.

It aims at attaining knowledge of strategies of avoiding explicitness as effective way of indirectness.

The study finds three major strategies: (implicatures, hedges and presequences) that carry communicative significance; yet, the writers show various degrees of implementations.

Mostly, implicature employment comes first as a highly preferrable strategy, before "Hedges", and "presequences".

This reflects writers' intention to use such strategies in their writing to avoid direct commitment of the proposition they present.

There are rationales behind that like politeness, considerations of pragmatics parameters, imposition avoidance and rights of obligations.