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Moving from a broad socio-pragmatic perspective, this study analyses how speakers of different ages use a class of items and constructions that codify intentional vagueness in Italian. Items as un po' 'a bit', tipo 'kind', diciamo 'let us say', così 'so', e cose del genere 'and things like that', or cosa 'thing' constitute a class of linguistically heterogeneous means that often function in conversation as vagueness markers, i.e. elements by which speakers signal that their knowledge or communication are somehow only tentative, approximate, and vague. Their use does not depend on language systemic factors, but is the result of a, more or less conscious, choice of speakers to enhance conversation for different reasons, which include facilitating the flow of conversation, signifying a vague categorization, and, eventually, being polite. Operating at the pragmatic level, vagueness markers represent elements that are readily available to speakers' choices and contribute to characterise individual and generational discourse styles. Through a corpus-based analysis of listeners' phone-ins to a radio station based in Milan, this study investigates how vagueness markers are used by speakers of different ages in 1976 and in 2010, and how Italian discourse styles have evolved in the last forty years.

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This text examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. Based on extensive data from several languages, distinguished scholars examine issues relevant to grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and the interface between grammar and discourse.

Romance languages --- Comparative linguistics --- Classical Latin language --- Pragmatics --- Discourse markers --- Latin language --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse markers. --- Pragmatics. --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Comparative --- Latin. --- Romance languages - Discourse analysis --- Latin language - Discourse analysis

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"Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities. The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails, everyday and institutional conversations, interviews, migrant narratives, radio phone-ins, dyadic and group settings, road-signs, service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches. The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein."--

Sociolinguistics --- Identity (Psychology) --- Pragmatics --- Comparative linguistics --- Linguistics --- Individuality --- Language and languages --- Self --- Personal identity --- Consciousness --- Mind and body --- Personality --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Likes and dislikes --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Individuality. --- Language and languages. --- Linguistics. --- Self. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Sociolinguistics - Congresses --- Identity (Psychology) - Congresses

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Sociolinguistics --- Identity (Psychology)