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10. Vagueness and hedging

From the book Pragmatics of Society

  • Maryann Overstreet
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214420.293
From the book
Pragmatics of Society
Pragmatics of Society

Chapters in this book (29)

Frontmatter
Preface to the handbook series
Table of contents
Introducing the pragmatics of society
I. Social, regional and situational factors
1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction
2. Gender identities and discourse
3. Regional pragmatic variation
4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations
II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features
5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy
6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction
7. Prosody and pragmatic effects
III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude
8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective
9. Interjections
10. Vagueness and hedging
IV. Different interpretational levels – speech acts, politeness and beyond
11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization
12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments
13. Politeness and impoliteness
14. Honorifics and address terms
V. Sequential patterns and activities
15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk
16. Turn-taking in conversation
17. Pauses and hesitations
VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture
18. Cultural variation in language use
19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare
VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context
20. Global and intercultural communication
21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives
22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history
About the authors
Author index
Subject index
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