Contents: Vagueness from a philosophical perspective - Linguistic approaches to vague language - Discourse in educational settings - British and American English - Discourse analysis - Corpora as a data source - Frequency, linguistic patterns and functions of quantifiers and approximators in British and American English - Practical applications of the study.
The Author: Jurat Ruzait is a lecturer in English linguistics at the Department of English Philology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania).