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Peer reviewedLasersohn, Peter – Language, 1999
Presents a novel formalism for representing the notion of approximation to the truth, and analyzes the meanings of these expressions in terms of this formalism. Pragmatic looseness of this kind should be distinguished from authentic truth-conditional vagueness. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics
Peer reviewedTannen, Deborah – Language, 1982
Discusses comparative analysis of spoken and written versions of a narrative to demonstrate that features which have been identified as characterizing oral discourse are also found in written discourse and that the written short story combines syntactic complexity expected in writing with features which create involvement expected in speaking.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Rhythm, Oral Language
Peer reviewedRickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995
This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
