Publications

Publication details [#64937]

Cheng, Winnie and Tiffany Ching. 2018. ‘Not a Guarantee of Future Performance’: The Local Grammar of Disclaimers. Applied Linguistics 39 (3) : 263–301.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disclaimer | discourse | function | grammar1 | language use

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This inquiry expands the notion of local grammar to the research of disclaimers in company reports. It also sketches and elucidates an analytical procedure to supply a way of reading the local grammar of particular language use.