عنوان

Vague language explored

electronic

Vague language explored

Basingstoke ]England[ ; New York

Palgrave Macmillian

2007

xiii, 251 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

edited by Joan Cutting

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 -- ~ / ] Oh [ not a <

140398817X )cloth(

، Ambiguity

، Grammar, Comparative and general

، Semantics

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AU Cutting, Joan