Publication details
On Expressing Meaning in English Conversation. Semantic Indeterminacy
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The monograph deals with the notion of socio-pragmatic meaning in authentic English face-to-face conversation studying features of semantic indeterminacy typical of this genre (indirectness, implicitness, attenuation, accentuation, vagueness). Language material is taken from the book A Corpus of English Conversation (eds. Quirk and Svartvik). |