New Approaches To Hedging (studies In Pragmatics)

Synopsis

Pragmatic Competence : The Case Of Hedging / Bruce Fraser -- A Contrastive Approach To Vague Nouns / Gisle Andersen -- Hedges In Context : Form And Function Of Sort Of And Kind Of / Anita Fetzer -- Mitigating And Being Vague In Interpreter-mediated Discourse / Bernd Meyer And Birte Pawlack -- The Diachrony Of Rounders And Adaptors : Approximation And Unidirectional Change / Wiltrud Mihatsch -- Hyperbolic Approximative Numerals In Cross-cultural Comparison / Eva Lavric -- Approximate Expressions And Their Loose Uses In Chinese / Yongping Ran -- Weakening Or Strengthening? A Case Of Enantiosemy In Plato's Gorgias / Claudia Caffi -- Position And Scope Of Epistemic Phrases In Planned And Unplanned American English / Elise Kärkkäinen -- Pragmatic Functions Of Parenthetical I Think / Gunther Kaltenböck -- Parenthetical Hedged Performatives / Stefan Schneider -- On The Relationship Between Attentuation, Discourse Particles And Position / Antonio Briz And Maria Estellés. Edited By Gunther Kaltenböck, Wiltrud Mihatsch, Stefan Schneider. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.