Titlebook: Vague Language Explored; Joan Cutting (Senior lecturer in TESOL) Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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‘Looking Out for Love and All the Rest of It’: Vague Category Markers as Shared Social Spacership, in so far as the referents of vague expressions can be assumed to be known by the listener. This is consistent with Cutting (2000), who illustrates how discourse communities use VL as a marker of in-group membership. It is this interactive aspect of VL that we will focus on in this chapter. W

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The Use of Vague Language Across Spoken Genres in an Intercultural Hong Kong Corpushe academic, business, conversational and public subcorpora in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE), which is made up of Hong Kong Chinese and primarily native English-speakers. Its aim is to find out how the use of VL compares across spoken genres and between the two sets of speakers. The

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{ / [ Oh ] Not a < ^ Lot > }: Discourse Intonation and Vague Languagend even ambivalence’ (He 2000, p. 7), as ‘vague language’ (Channell 1994) and ‘vague expressions’ (Carter and McCarthy 1997), while others talk of ‘imprecision’ or ‘imprecise language use’ (Crystal and Davy 1975, pp. 112–14; Dubois 1987). Stubbs (1996, p. 202) places ‘vague language and lack of comm

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‘Doing More Stuff — Where’s It Going?’: Exploring Vague Language Furtheronship and gender. Next, I point to several areas that still require investigation, my aim being to inspire others to research, and I also summarize suggestions made by contributors in this volume. The chapter then explores, in depth, applications of findings about VL. I outline ideas that abound in

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Caught Between Professional Requirements and Interpersonal Needs: Vague Language in Healthcare Contetailing how it is employed by real speakers and writers. Her framework has been applied effectively to a variety of contexts of interaction, ranging from studies into intercultural communication (Drave 2000) to adolescent talk (Stenstrom and Hasund 2002).