Publications

Publication details [#23377]

Gruber, Helmut. 1993. Political language and textual vagueness. Pragmatics 3 (1) : 1–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

political language | vagueness

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Vagueness in political language is studied not as a property of smaller linguistic units, but as a charateristic of texts or communicative acts that has to be assessed in terms of the strategic functions it serves.