Vagueness and ambiguity in communication, byMieke Matthyssen
2.This paper aims at confirming the positive signifi- cance of pragmatic vagueness in verbal communication and revealing some specific advantages of this phenome.语用含糊是日常言语交际中的普遍现象,对这种现象进行研究是有必要的。 3.This article deals with the definition,the formation of the vagueness...
And conversely, how do speakers and hearers use ambiguity and vagueness to achieve a specific goal? Comprehensive answers to these questions are provided from different fields which focus on the study of language, in particular, linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, psycholinguistics, theology, ...
uncertainty | equivocalness | abstruseness | obscurity |vagueness | opacity | paradox | haziness | doubt | indistinctness | equivocality ambiguity 词性/词形变化,ambiguity变形 名词复数:ambiguities | ambiguity 反义词 unambiguity ambiguity 短语词组 1、ambiguityencoding ─── [计] 含糊编码 2、patentambigu...
Ambiguity refers to the presence of multiple possible meanings or interpretations within a statement, word, or any other form of communication. This uncertainty can arise from the vagueness of language, lack of context, or the use of words and phrases that have more than one meaning. ...
“He is a tall man, skinny but little fat, with black pupils”. These characteristics are not going to give an image of that person to others because these features are too common and there are no specific detailed features being described. Another simple example of vagueness is ‘there are...
AMBIGUITY (Am-big-u-i-ty) is the property of being ambiguous, where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication, is called ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way. Ambiguity is distinct from vagueness, ...
And conversely, how do speakers and hearers use ambiguity and vagueness to achieve a specific goal? Comprehensive answers to these questions are provided from different fields which focus on the study of language, in particular, linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, psycholinguistics, theology, me...
Other explicit definitions of ambiguity included the simultaneous existence of positive and negative features in the same object (Durrheim and Foster, 1997), “vagueness and uncertainty of meaning” (Hancock et al., 2015, p. 114), and the lack of “reliability, credibility, or adequacy of ...
This paper aims at confirming the positive signifi- cance ofpragmatic vaguenessin verbal communication and revealing some specific advantages of this phenome. 语用含糊是日常言语交际中的普遍现象,对这种现象进行研究是有必要的。 3. This article deals with the definition,the formation of the vagueness,the...