自Peirce(1902)首次提出“模糊语言”(vaguelanguage)的概念以来,模糊语言的研究逐渐进步和深入,相关著述不断出现。但真正以模糊语言为标题的著作并不多见,只是从1990年代以来才逐渐出现。如L.C.Burns所著“Vagueness:An Investigationinto Natural Languages and the Sorites Paradox”(1991),Ti mothy Williamson所著的“Vagueness”(1996),Rosanna Keefe的“Theories of Vagueness”(2000),以及Ti mothy Williamson主编的模糊语言学论文集“Fuzzy Grammar”(2004),Joanna Channell的“Vague Language”(1994)。在国内引用率较高的模糊语言学专著当属伍铁平的《模糊语言学》(1996)和张乔的《模糊语义学》(1998)。然而,这些著作对模糊语言在具体语境(尤其是口语)中的语用功能讨论不足。比如,没有具体解答如下问题:1)人们为什么在交际场合使用模糊语言?2)研究模糊语言对日常对话和写作到...
This paper investigates the evolutionary change in the OF(OF) of hedges in different moves of EMRAs(EMRAs).Two corpora are established for longitudinal study,with Corpus A consisting of EMRAs from 1990-1994 and Corpus B from 2005-2009.Generally,no significant change has been found in overall use of hedges.However,apart from move 6,7 and 10,we have found some interesting changes in the other moves.On the one hand,the OF of hedges in move 1,move 3,move 4 and move 5 shows a significant increase.On the other hand,the OF of hedges in move 2,8,9 and move 11 show a significant decrease.
