Publications

Publication details [#13990]

Zhang, Qiao. 1998. Fuzziness - Vagueness - Generality - Ambiguity. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (1) : 13–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | cooperative principle | fuzziness2 | generality | vagueness

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A discussion of four linguistic concepts (viz. fuzziness, vagueness, generality and ambiguity) from the perspectives of semantics, syntax and pragmatics, both theoretically and practically.