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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. In
stead, they tke vagueness to be of ervcil importence for is efficient wage in everyday communication, I the
current paper, the focus is on semantic as well as pragmatic vagueness, which isthe mest affective in communica
tion. Whether a word oF sn expression is vague oF not can only be decided inthe specific context of situation, An
cxenplfied descrpson of the pragmatic functions of vague language illustrates its role in daily communication.
Key words: vagueness pragmatics; grammar; semantics
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