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...
Vagueness is inevitable in the process of communication.It exists to satisfy the objective needs.What’s more,vagueness is a significant means to upgrade the expressive effects of language.The knowledge of the phenome...
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,...
Vagueness of language has long been explored in the fields of philosophy and logic. Although Zadeh put forward fuzzy sets theory which was considered to be a decent quantitative instrument for the study of language va...
Vagueness in natural language is one of the most common social phenomenon, however, it was not until the development of fuzzy set theory which was put forward by L.A. Zadeh that scholars began to realize the importanc...
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...
Hedges was first put forward by George Lakoff in 1972.He mainly researched the meaning criteria and fuzzy logic of hedges. Later other linguists have begun to talk about the social function of hedges, which makes this...