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      Cutting, J. 2007. Pragmatics and Discourse: a Resource Book for Students (2nd edition). London: Routledge.
      ISBN: 9780415446679
      Summary: This book covers the core areas of the subject and suggests applications to ELT: Context and Co-text, Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Exchange Structure, Interactional Sociolinguistics, the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Theory, Corpus Linguistics, Communities of Practice, Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics and Language Learning.
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      Cutting, J. 2007. ‘Introduction’ in Vague Language Explored. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan
      Book editor(s): Cutting, J.
      ISBN: 9781403988171
      Summary: Vague Language (VL) is a central feature of daily language, spoken and written. Gathering descriptions from a variety of specialisms, this book examines the function of VL in a range of social contexts. It then suggests applications to language teaching, and directions that research could take next.
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      Cutting, J. 2007. ‘Doing more stuff - Where’s it going? Exploring vague language further’ in Vague Language Explored. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
      Book editor(s): Cutting, J.
      ISBN: 9781403988171
      Summary: I describe my model of Vague Language (VL) and discuss studies on the influence of social factors, such as function, depth of relationship and gender. The chapter also explores applications of findings to TEFL and describes an experiment on the teachability of VL.
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      Trappes-Lomax, H. 2007. ‘Vague language as a means of self-protective avoidance: Tension management in conference talks’ in Vague Language Explored. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
      Book editor(s): Cutting, J.
      ISBN: 9781403988171
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (Institute for Applied Language Studies/Office of Lifelong Learning)
      Evison, J., M.J. McCarthy and A. O'Keeffe. 2007. ‘Looking out for love and all the rest of it: Vague category markers as shared social space’ in Vague Language Explored. Hampshire: Palgrave, pp. 138-157
      Book editor(s): Cutting, J.
      ISBN: 1-4039-8817-X
      Summary: This chapter used the British English CANCODE corpus and the Irish English LICE corpus to explore vague language in contexts where the participants have different degrees of shared knowledge and intimacy, notably casual conversation, spoken academic data, and calls to radio phone ins. The implications for language teaching are considered.
      Entered by: University of Nottingham (School of Education)
      Cutting, J. 2005. ‘Spoken grammar: Vague language and EAP’ in Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan
      Book editor(s): Hughes, R.
      ISBN: 9780230217041
      Summary: This chapter argues that implicitness is an essential feature of spoken grammar, lexis and discourse structure, that it demands a systematic study of its inter-related parts, and that it should be a central part of the model taught to students of English as a Foreign Language, so that they can be helped to communicate on all levels with their interlocutors.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)
      Cutting, J. 2003-2006. ‘ELSY: Devising a Multimedia Airport Syllabus for Young People who are Unemployed and Under-qualified’.
      Funding body: European Commission Leonardo Language Competences
      Summary: A survey of the language used by unskilled airport workers - security guard, bus driver, fast food worker and ground handler - was used as a basis for designing English Language Teaching materials on CD.
      URL: http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/lingua/community/community5.pdf
      Institutional level: adult
      Entered by: University of Edinburgh (School of Education)