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Vague language explored

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vague language explorededited by Joan Cutting.
other author:	Cutting, Joan.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillian,2007.
Description:	xiii, 251 p.
Subject:	Ambiguity.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230627420

Vague language explored
Vague language explored[electronic resource] /edited by Joan Cutting. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillian,2007. - xiii, 251 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Vague language explored / Joan Cutting -- 'This we have done' : the vaguenessof 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 -- 'Wellmaybe not exactly, but it's around fifty basically?'" Vague language in mathematics classrooms / TimRowland -- 'I think he was kind of shouting or something' : uses and abuses of vagueness in the British courtroom / Janet Cotterill -- Vaguelanguage as a means of self-protective avoidance : tensionmanagement 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 < ^ lot > } : discourse intonation and vague language / Martin Warren -- 'Undtralala' : vagueness and general extenders in German and New Zealand English / Agnes Terraschke andJanet Holmes -- 'Doing more stuff - where's it going? : exploring vague languagefurther / Joan Cutting.

The ability to use vague language ("bags of time", "doing stuff", "sort of thing", "and all that") is an aspect of communicative competenceof considerable social importance. Vague Language Explored examines the function of vague language in context. It spans genre analysis, critical discourseanalysis, psycholinguistics and cross-cultural sociolinguistics, in a variety of world cultures - examining applications in professional, educational, and social contexts. In EFL applications it asksquestions such as "What should learners be taught to understand and use, and why?" and suggests directions for future research.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230627420

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230627420doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

233047
Ambiguity.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P299.A46 / V34 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 401/.43

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