Vagueness, ambiguity, and all the rest: linguistic and pragmatic approaches

"This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, also taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts,...

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Main Authors: Fiorentini, Ilaria (Author, Editor), Zanchi, Chiara 1989- (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity? (Veranstaltung) Winterthur (Author)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2024]
Series:Pragmatics & beyond new series volume 347
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Summary:"This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, also taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which address specific and broader research questions from different perspectives. The former part examines the differences between ambiguity and vagueness from a bird-eye perspective, with a particular focus on their respective functions and roles in language change. It also presents innovative linguistic resources and tools for the study of these phenomena. The second part contains case studies on vagueness and ambiguity in language change and use. It considers different strategies and languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Medieval Latin, and Old Italian. The readership for this volume is broad, encompassing academics and researchers in a range of disciplines, including pragmatics, spoken discourse, conversation analysis, discourse genres (political, commercial, notarial discourse), corpus studies, language change, pragmaticalization, and language typology"
Item Description:"This volume was conceived on the occasion of the panel 'How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity?' ", organized by the editors in the context of the 17th IPRA conference, which was to be held in Winterthur (Switzerland) from 27 June to 2 July 2021, ..." - Seite 2
Physical Description:VI, 286 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9789027215444

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