Use this url to cite publication: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/38646
Intervarietal language differences in professional settings : Vagueness in British and American academic discourse
Type of publication
Straipsnis recenzuojamoje užsienio tarptautinės konferencijos medžiagoje / Article in peer-reviewed foreign international conference proceedings (P1d)
Author(s)
Title
Intervarietal language differences in professional settings : Vagueness in British and American academic discourse
Is part of
Proceedings of the Ninth Nordic Conference for English Studies [Online version] / Ed. by Tim Caudery; University of Aarhus. Denmark : University of Aarhus, 2008
Date Issued
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2008 |
Publisher
Denmark : University of Aarhus, 2008
Extent
p. 1-16
Abstract (en)
The paper presents the main peculiarities of vague language used in academic settings, a special focus being on the differences between American and British English. The paper aims at looking at intervarietal differences and the main features of spoken academic discourse in the two varieties in relation to one category of vague language. The category under investigation is approximators (e.g. about, approximately). The investigation is based on corpus data and has some language teaching implications.
Type of document
type::text::journal::journal article::research article
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Danija / Denmark (DK)
Other Identifier(s)
VDU02-000005574