Indah Tri Purwanti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Indah Tri Purwanti is involved.

Article

Purwanti, Indah Tri 2019 ‘Sort of’ in Indonesian television discourse Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific, Parvaresh, Vahid and Grace Zhang (eds.), pp. 111–132 | Article

Expressing vagueness is a common phenomenon especially in spoken discourse. The present paper examines vague language ‘sort of’ (e.g., kayak gitu) realised in spoken discourse in Indonesian. It accounts for the pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ examined in their discourse context. The data under… read more