2001 E98 4 MAAS FR (BFS ASR) Val. 26 No.4 58526 (258 106 BH) Journal nf Hebi Universty( Philosophy and Social Science) Dee. 2001 BERS SHR BOS NOTE A a Br MARR remare Hoe. BRA 050016) MEHR Lxe MOSER MK RE oT1002) HR AMAL ARASH RABE — AMARTH ET dh CAKE Hk GOLEM, HB SUPRA SAMMAARLLLED MELRRS OMA WR CRIET CRM AIT SET RAR A EL Aoi AEM ELGAR LOE A REL BREA TMS AEM ARARA LEE OER, SRAM HE iB HB IR A Pragmatic Approach to Vagueness ‘ZHAO Ming-wei' , MAO Zhuo-liang” (1. Foreign Language Institute, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050016 Chinas 2. College of Foreign Languages, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China) Aliract: Vagueness, sich is constitutive property of natural language, is pervasive in every aspect of lng. [es study includes phonetic vagueness. grammatical vagueness, semantic vagueness well a pragmatic vagueness. Philsophers of natural language consider vagueness to be neither marginal nr @ problematic pherernenon. 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