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Vague language explored [el/
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, c2007.
- 1 online resource, 251 pages. ; illustration
Introduction to Vague language explored / Joan Cutting -- 'This we have done' : the vagueness of poetry and public relations / Guy Cook -- 'About twelve thousand or so' : vagueness in North American and UK offices / Almut Koester -- Caught between professional requirements and interpersonal needs : vague language in healthcare contexts / Svenja Adolphs, Sarah Atkins and Kevin Harvey -- 'Well maybe not exactly, but it's around fifty basically?'" Vague language in mathematics classrooms / Tim Rowland -- 'I think he was kind of shouting or something' : uses and abuses of vagueness in the British courtroom / Janet Cotterill -- Vague language as a means of self-protective avoidance : tension management in conference talks / Hugh Trappes-Lomax -- 'Looking out for love and all the rest of it' : vague category markers as shared social space / Jane Evison, Michael McCarthy and Anne O'Keeffe -- The use of vague language across spoken genres in an intercultural Hong Kong corpus / Winnie Cheng -- : discourse intonation and vague language / Martin Warren -- 'Und tralala' : vagueness and general extenders in German and New Zealand English / Agnes Terraschke and Janet Holmes -- 'Doing more stuff - where's it going? : exploring vague language further / Joan Cutting.
140398817X 9781403988171
Ambiguity.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Semantics.
401.43
Introduction to Vague language explored / Joan Cutting -- 'This we have done' : the vagueness of poetry and public relations / Guy Cook -- 'About twelve thousand or so' : vagueness in North American and UK offices / Almut Koester -- Caught between professional requirements and interpersonal needs : vague language in healthcare contexts / Svenja Adolphs, Sarah Atkins and Kevin Harvey -- 'Well maybe not exactly, but it's around fifty basically?'" Vague language in mathematics classrooms / Tim Rowland -- 'I think he was kind of shouting or something' : uses and abuses of vagueness in the British courtroom / Janet Cotterill -- Vague language as a means of self-protective avoidance : tension management in conference talks / Hugh Trappes-Lomax -- 'Looking out for love and all the rest of it' : vague category markers as shared social space / Jane Evison, Michael McCarthy and Anne O'Keeffe -- The use of vague language across spoken genres in an intercultural Hong Kong corpus / Winnie Cheng -- : discourse intonation and vague language / Martin Warren -- 'Und tralala' : vagueness and general extenders in German and New Zealand English / Agnes Terraschke and Janet Holmes -- 'Doing more stuff - where's it going? : exploring vague language further / Joan Cutting.
140398817X 9781403988171
Ambiguity.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Semantics.
401.43