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

by Dr Paul Égré (Editor), Dr Nathan Klinedinst (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $11.78

  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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  Hardcover
  2011

  $116.24

  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.