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Publication details [#56867]

Gassner, Denise. 2012. Vague Language That Is Rarely Vague: A Case Study of “Thing“ in L1 and L2 Discourse. International Review of Pragmatics 4 (1) : 3–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hearer | job interview | pragmatics | second language acquisition | vagueness

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This theoretical discussion presents a definition of vagueness as a pragmatic hearer founded phenomenon, that will be applied to an exploration of “thing“ in English as a first and second language job interviews in Australia.