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Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy
Giorgia Mannaioli
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 350] 2025
► pp. 138–183

Chapter 5
Vagueness in political speeches

Article outline
  • 5.1The historical and political context
    • 5.1.1The Third Republic
  • 5.2The corpus
  • 5.3Methodology
  • 5.4Quantitative analysis of lexical vagueness, syntactic vagueness and vagueness by metaphor
    • 5.4.1Discussion
  • 5.5Linguistic anatomy of vagueness in the political corpus: Quali-quantitative cross-level analysis
    • 5.5.1Morphosyntactic level
    • 5.5.2Syntactic-semantic interface
      • 5.5.2.1Lexical vagueness’ and vagueness by metaphor’s thematic roles
      • 5.5.2.2Thematic roles of syntactic vagueness’ omitted constituents
    • 5.5.3Semantic level
    • 5.5.4Semantics-Pragmatics interface
    • 5.5.5Pragmatic level
  • 5.6Analysis summary
  • Notes
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