Publications

Publication details [#5883]

Lakoff, George. 1972. Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 8 : 183–228.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

delimitation of pragmatics | fuzzy set | hedge | truthfulness

Annotation

This study of 'hedges' and 'fuzzy concepts' shows that in natural language truth is a matter of degree, not an absolute, and that semantics is not independent of pragmatics.

Reviewed by

Klockow, Reinhard. 1976. Gänsefüsschen-Semantik: Eine Ergänzung zu Lakoff's 'Hedges'. In Weber, Heinrich and Harald Weydt, eds. Sprachtheorie und Pragmatik. Akten des 10. linguistischen Kolloquiums, Tübingen 1975, Band 1. M. Niemeyer. pp. 235–245.

Reprints

Hockney, D.J., W. Harper and B. Freed. 1975. In Hockney, D.J., W. Harper and B. Freed, eds. Contemporary research in philosophical logic and linguistic semantics. Proceedings of a conference held at the university of Western Ontario, London, Canada. D. Reidel. pp. 221–271.