... giving bad news by native speakers of VNSs and ENSs has inspired the writer to develop her research entitled A Vietnamese- English cross- cultural study of the use of hedging before giving bad news ... clothing, artifacts...), the study is confined to the verbal aspects of the act of giving bad news with the use of politeness and hedging. In addition, adjacency pairs are beyond the scope of this paper.- ... The Northern Vietnamese dialect and the English spoken by Anglophone community of England, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, are chosen for contrastive analysis. - The data are collected...