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Vagueness and Language Use

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-230-23861-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Erscheinungstermin: 19.04.2011
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780230238619
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-230-23861-9
  • Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
  • Erscheinungstermin: 19.04.2011
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2011. Auflage 2011
  • Serie: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 612 g
  • Seiten: 319
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 218 x 28 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Égré, P.

Klinedinst, N.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: P.Égré & N.Klinedinst PART I: MEASUREMENT AND COMPARISON Vagueness and Scales; S.Fults Implicit and Explicit Comparatives; R.van Rooij Vagueness and Comparison; C.Kennedy The Inhabitants of Vagueness Models; G.Sassoon PART II: APPROXIMATORS AND INTENSIFIERS Two Types of Vagueness; U.Sauerland & P.Stateva Degree Modifiers and Monotonicity; R.Nouwen Clarity as Objectivized Belief; A.Cohen & L.Wolf Reasoning about Public Evidence; C.Barker PART III: THE SORITES PARADOX Supervaluationism and Fara's Argument concerning Higher-Order Vagueness; P.Cobreros Truth in a Region; D.Fara Vagueness and Practical Interest; P.Sweeney & E.Zardini Vagueness and Domain Restriction; P.Pagin Index