Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing

Myers, Greg

doi:10.1075/pbns.41.04mye

In:Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues
Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 41] 1996
► pp. 3–18

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Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing

Greg Myers

Published online: 15 March 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.41.04mye

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