Vague Language Explored

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Vague Language Explored ....Pages 3-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
‘This We Have Done’: The Vagueness of Poetry and Public Relations....Pages 21-39
‘About Twelve Thousand or So’: Vagueness in North American and UK Offices....Pages 40-61
Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs: Vague Language in Healthcare Contexts....Pages 62-78
‘Well Maybe Not Exactly, but It’s Around Fifty Basically?’: Vague Language in Mathematics Classrooms....Pages 79-96
‘I Think He Was Kind of Shouting or Something’: Uses and Abuses of Vagueness in the British Courtroom....Pages 97-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Vague Language as a Means of Self-Protective Avoidance: Tension Management in Conference Talks....Pages 117-137
‘Looking Out for Love and All the Rest of It’: Vague Category Markers as Shared Social Space....Pages 138-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
The Use of Vague Language Across Spoken Genres in an Intercultural Hong Kong Corpus....Pages 161-181
{ / [ Oh ] Not a < ^ Lot > }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Language....Pages 182-197
‘Und Tralala’: Vagueness and General Extenders in German and New Zealand English....Pages 198-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
‘Doing More Stuff — Where’s It Going?’: Exploring Vague Language Further....Pages 223-243
Back Matter....Pages 245-251