Vague Language Explored 1st Edition by J Cutting ISBN 1349541974 978-1349541973

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ISBN 10:1349541974

ISBN 13:978-1349541973

Author:J.Cutting

Vague language (‘bags of time’, ‘doing stuff’, ‘and all that’) is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance. This book examines its function. It spans genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, psycholinguistics and cross-cultural sociolinguistics, and suggests applications in TEFL and directions for future research.

Table of contents: 

Part I Introduction

1 Introduction to Vague LanguageExplored

Part II Vagueness and Genre

2 ‘This We Have Done’: The Vagueness of Poetry and Public Relations

3 ‘About Twelve Thousand or So’: Vagueness in North American and UK Offices

4 Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs: Vague Language in Healthcare Con

5 ‘Well Maybe Not Exactly, but It’s Around Fifty Basically?’: Vague Language in Mathematics

6 ‘I Think He Was Kind of Shouting or Something’: Uses and Abuses of Vagueness in the British Courtr

Part III Psychology of Vagueness

7 Vague Language as a Means ofSelf-Protective Avoidance: TensionManagement in Conference Talks

8 ‘Looking Out for Love and All the Rest of It’: Vague Category Markers as Shared Social Space

Part IV Cross-Cultural Vagueness

9 The Use of Vague Language Across Spoken Genres in an Intercultural Hong Kong Corpus

10 {/[Oh] Not a }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Language

11 ‘Und Tralala’: Vagueness and General Extenders in German and New Zealand English

Part V Conclusion

12 ‘Doing More Stuff- Where’s It Going?’: Exploring Vague Language Further

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