LINGUIST List 21.4782 Sun Nov 28 2010 Books: Pragmatics: Kalenbock, Mihatsch, Schneider (Eds) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Jessica Davis , New Approaches to Hedging: Kalenbock, Mihatsch, Schneider (Eds) Message 1: New Approaches to Hedging: Kalenbock, Mihatsch, Schneider (Eds) Date: 25-Nov-2010 From: Jessica Davis <jdavisemeraldinsight.com> Subject: New Approaches to Hedging: Kalenbock, Mihatsch, Schneider (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: New Approaches to Hedging Series Title: Studies in Pragmatics Published: 2010 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited                 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Book URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857242474/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-to Editor: Gunther Kalenbock Editor: Wiltrud Mihatsch Editor: Stefan Schneider Hardback: ISBN: 9780857242471 Pages: 328 Price: U.K. £ 72.95 Abstract: Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges. Table of Contents Introduction Pragmatic Competence: The Case of Hedging Bruce Fraser A Contrastive Approach to Vague Nouns Gisle Andersen Hedges in Context: Form and Function of sort of and kind of Anita Fetzer Mitigating and being vague in Interpreter-Mediated Discourse Bernd Meyer and Birte Pawlack The Diachrony of Rounders and Adaptors: Approximation and Unidirectional Change Wiltrud Mihatsch Hyperbolic Approximative Numerals in Cross-Cultural Comparison Eva Lavric Approximative Expressions and their Loose Uses in Chinese Yongping Ran Weakening or Strengthening?: A Case of Enantiosemy in Plato's Gorgias Claudia Caffi Position and Scope of Epistemic Phrases in Planned and Unplanned American English Elise Kärkkäinen Pragmatic Functions of Parenthetical I think Gunther Kaltenböck Parenthetical Hedged Performatives Stefan Schneider On the relationship between Attenuation, Discourse Particles and Position Antonio Briz andMaria Estellés Subject Index For further information or to discuss review copies or adoption of this book, please contact jdavisemeraldinsight.com Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Pragmatics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=51706 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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