Yen-Liang Lin

[ 1 ] - Vague Language and Interpersonal Communication: An Analysis of Adolescent Intercultural Conversation

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the British and Taiwanese Teenage Intercultural Communication Corpus (BATTICC). More specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...