Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific

Announcement
• Acknowledgements
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Introduction
• ‘Sort of’ across languages of the Asia and Oceania regions
  Vahid Parvaresh & Grace Zhang | pp. 2–8
Articles
• Sort of in Australian English: The elasticity of a pragmatic marker
  Jean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams & Erin Moore | pp. 9–32
• On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs
  Peyman G. P. Sabet | pp. 33–61
• The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums: A Chinese perspective
  Grace Zhang | pp. 62–85
• Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: A vague language perspective
  Vahid Parvaresh & Amir Sheikhan | pp. 86–110
• ‘Sort of’ in Indonesian television discourse
  Indah Tri Purwanti | pp. 111–132
Book reviews
• Dániel Z. Kádár. 2017. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction
  Reviewed by Lili Gong & Yongping Ran | pp. 133–139
• Chiara Fedriani & Andrea Sansò (Eds.). 2017. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
  Reviewed by Peyman G. P. Sabet | pp. 140–147

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