The present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate EFL learners. More specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. The data include a 22-hour corpus of English-as-a-foreign-language conversations. A comparison is also made between this corpus and a...

This study employs discourse analysis to examine the pragmatic functions of vague language in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address. By interpreting hedging, abstract concepts and generalizations address, author explores how is strategically utilized by political leaders achieve his purposes, such as establishing unity inclusivity, alluding past grievances, promising change, eliciting emotional reac...

Vague graphs (VGs), which are a family of fuzzy (FGs), well-organized and useful tool for capturing resolving range real-world scenarios involving ambiguous data. In graph theory, dominating set (DS) G ∗ = X , E </m...

in this paper, various elementary properties of vague rings are obtained. furthermore, the concepts of vague subring, vague ideal, vague prime ideal and vague maximal ideal are introduced, and the validity of some relevant classical results in these settings are investigated.