This paper examined the use of hedging in information subsidies about the Anglophone Crisis. More specifically, it sought to determine which hedging devices were used in government information subsidies about the crisis, establish the discourse and communication functions of these hedges, and determine the crisis response postures reflected through hedging. The paper adopted a documentation and records method to obtain 83 information subsidies (speeches, communiques, reports, policy statements, media statements or ‘outings’, press releases, press conference presentations, press kits, etc.) from twelve government institutions. These twelve institutions were purposively chosen because of their centrality to the government’s crisis communications about the Anglophone Crisis between October 2016 and December 20. Nvivo was used for content analysis of information subsidies. Quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis, presentation and discussion were used. The study identified six categories of hedging devices which served varied discourse and communication functions. For example, approximators and rounders were used to distance the government from particularly controversial claims about key crisis issues; while contrastive conjunctions served to highlight support for government crisis management strategies, protect government credibility, and diminish the amount of crisis responsibility attributed to the government. Conditionals were used to express beliefs, claims and stances about Anglophone Crisis events in a way that restricts potentially controversial interpretations. Plausibility and attribution shields reduce the force of government crisis managers’ claims by signalling uncertainty towards crisis messaging content and attributing particular crisis-related beliefs or commitments to other stakeholders. These findings show the role of hedging in crisis communication about the Anglophone Crisis. Given the divergence in crisis response postures reflected, this study recommends greater synchrony in the use of hedging devices.

The Bangla text of the print advertisement is continuously being changed due to the influence of English for diverse reasons. This sheer impact may be termed as the Englishization of print advertisement. This paper analyzes the feature and frequency of the Englishization of Bangla sentences in print advertisements. Ultimately, this study scrutinizes how the Englishization of Bangla Print Advertisement works as an ideological apparatus for the capitalist regime. Data were collected from 50 advertisement taglines. The researcher selected advertisements directly from the widely- circulated national dailies in Bangladesh. The data were analyzed from the perspectives of Raymond Williams’s essay “Advertising: The Magic System” and cultural studies scholar Stuart Hall’s Encoding and Decoding Model of Communication. The findings of this research included: the romanization of Bangla texts, code-switching and code- borrowing in the Bangla texts, merging of English words with Bangla suffixes, both Bangla and English numerals in the same Bangla sentence, evidence of English and loan word acronyms in the same Bangla sentence. This research confirmed that the Englishization of Bangla print advertisements has developed further with time and has become an inevitable trend. Moreover, the Englishization of Bangla print advertisements is used to transform commodities into “fetishes”, which protects the interests of capitalism.