The first major descriptive study of linguistics vagueness – arguably the strategies of which constitute a key aspect of communicative competence of native speakers of English. This study shows how English provides its speakers with a great variety of ways of being vague and draws on naturally-occurring data...

download Good Reasoning Matters!: A Constructive Approach to Critical Thinking pdf Designed to help students develop the quality of their thinking and to respond effectively to often confusing and contradictory messages, Good Reasoning Matters! offers an indispensable guide to evaluating and constructing arguments. In addition to examining the...

A wealth of psycholinguistic evidence has shown that words, before being visually recognized, decompose into smaller orthographic units which may seem to correspond to, but aren’t necessarily, morphemes. Such a procedure of morphological decomposition is commonly assumed to solely rely on islands of regularity – namely, statistical orthographic...