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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 347] 2024
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction How vague and ambiguous are vagueness and ambiguity?

Part I.Vagueness and ambiguity

Theory and methods Chapter 2. The role of ambiguity and vagueness in language change
Chapter 3. The role of ambiguity in intentional vagueness
Chapter 4. Vagueness and ambiguity are very different (persuasion devices)
Chapter 5. Ambiguity in discourse The Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena

Part II.Vagueness and ambiguity in language change and use

Chapter 6. Vagueness and ambiguity of voice markers Synchrony and diachrony
Chapter 7. Vague stuff Cose as a general extender from Latin to Italian
Chapter 8. Vagueness explored The role of comment clauses
Chapter 9. Using ambiguity and vagueness to avoid problematic answers The case of Italian abbastanza
Chapter 10. Vagueness and ambiguity of perlocutionary effects in Prime Minister’s Question time sessions
Chapter 11. Place names in legal texts Vagueness and ambiguity in the Italian Medieval Lombard kingdoms
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