This E-Lecture is a continuation of "Ambiguity". Prof. Handke discusses and exemplifies the types of vagueness including some general problems, such as, the fuzziness of boundaries or habitual use.
Thank you for this e-lecture which is valuable for my studies in linguitics. However I have got a concern: Can vagueness be considered as a discursive strategy? To what extent, if that's the case?
That is my take. Many of these examples are vague because either: it was pulled from a well constructed sentence and so is missing pertinent information, pulled from a poorly constructed sentence, the meaning was specifically withheld for some purpose (to add intrigue or deception), or the words are intentionally created vague to provide more elasticity to the language. I still haven't seen an example of this vagueness which seems to be one which can't be overcome with effort. Having issues with classifying height? Look at the average for a region and compare. Height would then be relative, region to region. If that is not acceptable, take the average height of all regions. Point being, there is a solution. I hope you are still active on youtube :)
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Very nicely explained.
i want to know why the chair example does not belong to the type of "lack of specification"? isn't the word "chair" clear in principle?
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Thank you for this e-lecture which is valuable for my studies in linguitics. However I have got a concern: Can vagueness be considered as a discursive strategy? To what extent, if that's the case?
That is my take. Many of these examples are vague because either: it was pulled from a well constructed sentence and so is missing pertinent information, pulled from a poorly constructed sentence, the meaning was specifically withheld for some purpose (to add intrigue or deception), or the words are intentionally created vague to provide more elasticity to the language. I still haven't seen an example of this vagueness which seems to be one which can't be overcome with effort. Having issues with classifying height? Look at the average for a region and compare. Height would then be relative, region to region. If that is not acceptable, take the average height of all regions. Point being, there is a solution.
I hope you are still active on youtube :)
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Danke.
Thank you for this great e-lecture could you please give another example of referential vagueness?
There are several more examples in the 'Virtual Session' of the Vagueness Unit of the VLC course: Linguistics 103 - The Nature of Meaning.
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