Web site accompanying the book Not Exactly: in Praise of Vagueness, by Kees van Deemter, Oxford University Press, Jan 2010.


Not Exactly in the media


Reviews (both popular and academic)

Review in the Times Higher Education supplement, 4 Feb. 2010. (Book of the Week)

Short review in the Sunday Times, 7 Feb. 2010.

Review in Nature, 11 Feb. 2010.

Review in the Wall Street Journal, 3 March 2010.

Short Review in Science News, July 2010.

Short Review in Calcalist, July 2010. (Review in Hebrew.)

Review in Computational Linguistics, March 2011.

Review in Minds and Machines, August 2011.

Review in Laval theologique et philosophique, October 2011. (Review in French. Freely accessible for subscribers only.)

Short review in Edinburgh University's Science Magazine eu:sci, October 2011.

Review in Corriere della Sera, April 2012. See also here. (Review in Italian.)


News reports and interviews

Primer in BBC Focus Magazine. A similar piece is this OUP Blog, 18 Feb. 2010. Both pieces are essentially advertisements.

Short piece in Aberdeen's The Press and Journal, 2 February 2010. (Admittedly, I doubt that "political speeches containing words with no real meaning could soon be a thing of the past")

Interview live in Newstalk (mp3 format) with Sean Moncrieff, Irish radio channel Newstalk, 10 February 2010.

Spoken interview in The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast of 8 March 2010. The relevant item is the last of three contributions, starting with an interview with Simon Singh on libel laws.

Interview in the New Scientist 10 March 2010. (Title: The importance of being vague.) The journal highlighted the book in this editorial.

Interview in the Latvian magazine Rigas Laiks, May 2010. (Interview in Latvian, approximately 1MB)


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