Vague Language Explored

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 7 Vague Language as a Means of Self-Protective Avoidance: Tension Management in Conference Talks

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

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

Chapter 10 { / [ Oh ] Not a < ^ Lot > }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Language

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

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