Sandra Williams

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sandra Williams plays a role.

Articles

Williams, Sandra and Richard Power 2013 Hedging and rounding in numerical expressionsPragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 193–223 | Article
Previous accounts of hedges assume that they cause language to become vague or fuzzy (Lakoff 1973); however, hedges can actually sharpen numerical concepts by giving explicit information about approximation, especially where bare numbers appear misleadingly round or precise. They can also tell… read more