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Vagueness and Language Use (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition) PDF

332 Pages·2011·1.29 MB·
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This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
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