Vague Language Explored (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction to Vague Language Explored; J.Cutting PART 2: VAGUENESS AND GENRE 'This We Have Done': the Vagueness of Poetry and Public Relations; G.Cook 'About Twelve Thousand or so': Vagueness in North American and UK Offices; A.Koester Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs: Vague Language in Health Care Contexts; S.Adolphs, S.Atkins & K.Harvey 'Well Maybe not Exactly, but it's Around Fifty Basically?': Vague Language in Mathematics Classrooms; T.Rowland 'I think he was Kind of Shouting or Something': Uses and Abuses of Vagueness in the British Courtroom; J.Cotterill PART 3: PSYCHOLOGY OF VAGUENESS Vague Language for Self-Protective Avoidance: Tension Management in Conference Talks; H.Trappes-Lomax 'Looking out for Love and all the Rest of It': Vague Category Markers As Shared Social Space; J.Evison, M.McCarthy & A.O'Keefe PART 4: CROSS-CULTURAL VAGUENESS The Use of Vague Language across Spoken Genres in an Intercultural Hong Kong Corpus; W.Cheng { / [ Oh ] Not A }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Language; M.Warren 'Und tralala': General Extenders in German and New Zealand English; J.Holmes & A.Terraschke PART 5: CONCLUSION 'Doing more stuff - where's it going?': Exploring Vague Language Further; J.Cutting Index