Chapter 7
Vagueness in non-predominantly persuasive speeches
Article outline
- 7.1The corpus
- 7.2Methodology
- 7.3Quantitative analysis of lexical vagueness, syntactic vagueness and vagueness by metaphor
- 7.4Linguistic anatomy of vagueness in the non-predominantly persuasive corpus: Quali-quantitative cross-level analysis
- 7.4.1Morphosyntactic level
- 7.4.2Syntactic-semantic interface
- 7.4.2.1Lexical vagueness’ and vagueness by metaphor’s thematic roles
- 7.4.2.2Thematic roles of syntactic vagueness’ omitted constituents
- 7.4.3Semantic level
- 7.4.4Semantics-Pragmatic interface
- 7.4.5Pragmatic level
- 7.5Analysis summary
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Notes
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