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Vagueness and Language Use

Vagueness and Language Use

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0230238610
ISBN13: 9780230238619
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 19 2011
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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