Cutting, Joan
Vague Language Explored
Part I. Introduction
1. Introduction to
Joan Cutting
Part II. Vagueness and Genre
2. ‘This We Have Done’: The Vagueness of Poetry and Public Relations
Guy Cook
3. ‘About Twelve Thousand or So’: Vagueness in North American and UK Offices
Almut Koester
4. Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs: Vague Language in Healthcare Contexts
Svenja Adolphs, Sarah Atkins, Kevin Harvey
5. ‘Well Maybe Not Exactly, but It’s Around Fifty Basically?’: Vague Language in Mathematics Classrooms
Tim Rowland
6. ‘I Think He Was Kind of Shouting or Something’: Uses and Abuses of Vagueness in the British Courtroom
Janet Cotterill
Part III. Psychology of Vagueness
7. Vague Language as a Means of Self-Protective Avoidance: Tension Management in Conference Talks
Hugh Trappes-Lomax
8. ‘Looking Out for Love and All the Rest of It’: Vague Category Markers as Shared Social Space
Jane Evison, Michael McCarthy, Anne O’Keeffe
Part IV. Cross-Cultural Vagueness
9. The Use of Vague Language Across Spoken Genres in an Intercultural Hong Kong Corpus
Winnie Cheng
10. { / [ Oh ] Not a < ^ Lot > }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Language
Martin Warren
11. ‘Und Tralala’: Vagueness and General Extenders in German and New Zealand English
Agnes Terraschke, Janet Holmes
Part V. Conclusion
12. ‘Doing More Stuff — Where’s It Going?’: Exploring Vague Language Further
Joan Cutting
Nyckelord: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
- Utgivare
- Cutting, Joan
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2007
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 264 sidor
- Kategori
- Språk
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230627420
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-54197-3