Language, Vagueness, and Social Communication
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Language, Vagueness, and Social Communication
In his paper, "Language, Vagueness, and Social Communication," Colin B. Grant adopts an interdisciplinary approach to an interrelated complex of language, communication, and society. Grant operates with a modified concept of vagueness as a pragmatic property and attempts to establish a link between pragmatic vagueness and contingency in communication. This communicative contingency takes the fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1481-4374
DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.1134