Interactive aspects of vagueness in conversation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1737-1769

  Jucker, Andreas H ^a   Smith, Sara W ^b   Lüdge, Tanja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude; Common ground; Conversation; Focus; Loose talk; Relevance; Softener; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142153223     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00188-1     Document Type: Article

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