Vagueness as a euphemistic strategy

Speaking of Emotions: Conceptualisation and Expression

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-374

  Grondelaers, Stefan ^a   Geeraerts, Dirk ^a  

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110806007.357     Document Type: Chapter

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