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Satyajit Pattnaik,Pradip Kumar Sahudiscourse. The nature of academic discourse, contrary to common belief, requires vague expressions, and teachers and students tend to make extensive use of them to allow them to express degrees of certainty about the strength of a statement (see, for example, Ruzaitė 2007).

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Mainaz Faridi,Seema Verma,Saurabh Mukherjeenication. The growing body of literature on vague language acknowledges the pervasiveness of this often underestimated feature of natural language in communication (Channell 1994; Cutting 2007; Jucker et al. 2003; Ruzaitė 2007; Zhang 2015). The present chapter will deal with a functional analysis of vague language in the three data sets.

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Soft Computing: Theories and Applicationsfactors involved. The focus here is the combination of overall and individual occurrences. Differences in the frequency distribution of items are discussed first, then the causes of the similarities and discrepancies in the patterns are examined.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486387comparative; first language; foundation; language; methodology; second language; english

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Soft Computing: Theories and Applicationsinexplicit expressions, which are used elastically to enrich communication. Vagueness has been considered a demerit by some, who judge it an undesirable phenomenon and a negative feature of language. For them, meaning is considered the core component of communication, irrespective of the speakers’ i

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Mainaz Faridi,Seema Verma,Saurabh Mukherjeenication. The growing body of literature on vague language acknowledges the pervasiveness of this often underestimated feature of natural language in communication (Channell 1994; Cutting 2007; Jucker et al. 2003; Ruzaitė 2007; Zhang 2015). The present chapter will deal with a functional analysis of