Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific
Special issue of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019)
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[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29:1] 2019. v, 147 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 May 2019
Published online on 16 May 2019
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgementsp. 1
- ‘Sort of’ across languages of the Asia and Oceania regionsVahid Parvaresh & Grace Zhang | pp. 2–8
- Sort of in Australian English: The elasticity of a pragmatic markerJean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams & Erin Moore | pp. 9–32
- On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programsPeyman G. P. Sabet | pp. 33–61
- The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums: A Chinese perspectiveGrace Zhang | pp. 62–85
- Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: A vague language perspectiveVahid Parvaresh & Amir Sheikhan | pp. 86–110
- ‘Sort of’ in Indonesian television discourseIndah Tri Purwanti | pp. 111–132
- Dániel Z. Kádár. 2017. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal InteractionReviewed by Lili Gong & Yongping Ran | pp. 133–139
- Chiara Fedriani & Andrea Sansò (Eds.). 2017. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal ParticlesReviewed by Peyman G. P. Sabet | pp. 140–147
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