Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts

By George Lakoff. 1973

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Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “Outside of NLP, philosophy (Austin, 1975) and linguistics (Lakoff, 1973; Coleman and Kay, 1981) recognized that meaning is flexible yet structured.”
Striking a balance: Socio-emotional processes during argumentation in collaborative learning interaction (2017, background): “Tentativeness of claims manifested as frequent uses of hedging (Lakoff, 1972).”
Linguistic perspectives on the development of intercultural competence in telecollaboration (2003, background): “…the linguistic resources that he includes in this subsystem of ENGAGEMENT overlap "substantially" with those included in other approaches to the grammar of interpersonal relations such as truth functional approaches to modality (Lyons, 1977), evidentiality (Chafe, 1986), and hedging (Lakoff, 1972).”
The Growth of Flexible Problem Solving: Preschool Children Use Changing Verbal Cues to Infer Multiple Word Meanings (2000, methodology): “The predicate can imply subjective apperception (e.g., “That ink blot looks like a cat”) or hedging (e.g., “It looks like a fish, but it’s really a mammal”; see Lakoff, 1973).”
Factor Analysis vs. Fuzzy Sets Theory: Assessing the Influence of Different Techniques on Sen's Functioning Approach (2001, background): “11Alternative views expressed in the literature come from Lakoff (1973), who stresses how the membership function's specification is just supposed to capture the general intuition of the researcher about the considered attribute, thus simply providing a “not too bad approximation” of it, or from…”
Gradability in the nominal domain (2011, background): “Henry 1971, Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Lakoff 1990, 1994, 1996; for a different type of approach to metaphor, see Recanati 2003, Romero and Soria 2007 a.o.). 58 Interestingly, the expressions that occupy the N1 slot in some of the examples in this sub-section cannot be used in this way outside of the ”