Sandra Williams
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandra Williams is involved.
Articles
2013 Hedging and rounding in numerical expressions Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 193–223 | Article
Previous accounts of hedges assume that they cause language to become vague or fuzzy (Lakoff 1973); however, hedges can actually sharpen numerical concepts by giving explicit information about approximation, especially where bare numbers appear misleadingly round or precise. They can also tell… read more
2000 Anaphoric reference and ellipsis resolution in a telephone-based spoken language system for accessing
email Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora, Botley, Simon Philip and Tony McEnery (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Article