Cooperative Principle calls for people to speak in such a way that is informative, truthful, relevant, clear and brief.However, in diplomatic circle,sometimes politicians do not obey the Cooperative Principle, frequen...
Pragmatic vagueness is frequently used in business correspondences and it offers benefits to the addressers by making business letter more flexible,appropriate and polite.This paper focuses on the employment of vague ...
It is favorable for diplomats to employ pragmatic vagueness during the process of diplomacy,because it can help diplomats to create harmonious atmosphere,achieve politeness,shed off responsibilities,protect interests,...
Diplomatic language is of vital importance in current affairs and international relationship. Many studies have been made worldwide, and exciting breakthroughs, especially those in the field of social intercourse, for...
Vague language, as an intrinsic nature of human language, is an universal phenomenon in our daily life. Pragmatic vagueness,the actual use of vague language in communication,is often used to reach certain purposes.Thi...
Politeness symbolizes human civilization,and is one of conduct codes of human beings.As a social activity,language use is subject to this code as well.Pragmatic vagueness is a common phenomenon in spoken discourse.Fur...
In BE interpretation process, interpreters will inevitably encounter the fuzzy phenomenon when inputting and outputting the message and they will adopt some vague language to fulfill the communication task. The proper...
Fuzzy words are abundant in all human languages,and widely used in diplomatic language without exception.As one of the tactics and speech skills,appropriate vagueness can meet the special requirements of social contac...
Pragmatic vagueness is a common phenomenon in verbal communication. Furthermore, it is an important strat- egy widely used in diplomatic language. This thesis explores the pragmatic vagueness by analyzing diplomatic E...