Summary of changes made to enhance language delicacy
Summary : These 8 "pillars of delicacy" have taken us from the relatively simple and crude statement we started with:
Nurses will go on strike because they think their salaries are too low
To the much more complex, yet infinitely closer approximation to a believable representation of what probably reflects the complexity of the bargaining and strike situation, expressed (admittedly clumsily) as follows:
Attribution
Presupposition
Concession
Sources in the Hospital Authority, the government branch responsible
for setting hospital staff salaries, report that, although the government
has made promises to review their pay structure,Hong Kong’s nurses
will go on strike unless the government implements that review immediately
Contingency Fact/Belief status Scope/Generalisation
