Interactive aspects of vagueness in conversation

Jucker, Andreas H.; Smith, Sara W.; Lüdge, Tanja

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00188-1

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“…Weigand (1999: 774-781) Lack of coherence (Verdonik, 2010(Verdonik, : 1370, vagueness and ambiguity (Ardissono et al, 1998;Keysar and Henly, 2002;Jucker et al, 2003;Keysar, 2007;Shintel and Keysar, 2009), and unattainable explicitness (Dascal, 1999: 755;Ferreira et al, 2005;Verdonik, 2010Verdonik, : 1368Verdonik, -1375) also feature as conspicuous causes. In intracultural and intercultural communication, diverse cultural information undoubtedly also plays a major role (Banks et al, 1991;Tannen, 1991Tannen, , 1992Tannen, , 1994Zamborlin, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, utterances may only vaguely unveil intended messages, what speakers intend to do with their words or their feelings and/or attitudes to something (including messages) or to other people (including addressees). Utterances are not but sketchy plans for making manifest informative intentions and roughly approximate to the speaker's thoughts (Jucker et al, 2003(Jucker et al, : 1742.…”

Section: Successful Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Cruz

2017

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Abstract Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause misunderstanding. While some of these are structural factors, others pertain to the speaker or to both the speaker and the hearer. In addition to stable factors connected with the interlocutors′ communicative abilities, cultural knowledge or patterns of thinking, other less stable factors, such as their personal relationships, psychological states or actions motivated by physiological functions, may also result in communicative problems. This paper considers a series of further factors that may eventually lead to misunderstanding, and which solely pertain to the hearer: processing strategy, confirmation bias and weak vigilance.

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Section: Understanding Misunderstandingmentioning

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Section: Successful Communicationmentioning

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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Cruz

2017

RiL

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“…Hedging has been studied from various perspectives, such as cross-cultural comparisons, gender studies, translation studies, politeness theory, and academic discourse (Nikula, 1997;De Cock et al, 1998;Cheng & Warren, 2001;Jucker, Smith & Ludge, 2003;Aijmer, 2004;Wilamowa, 2005;Metsa-Ketela, 2006, Shirato & Stapleton, 2007Seskauskiene, 2008;Riekkinen, 2009). However, majority of them have focused on the pragmatic aspect of hedges.…”

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“…Many studies were conducted on hedging in different types of spoken and written discourses (Nikula, 1997;De Cock et al, 1998;Cheng & Warren, 2001;Jucker, Smith & Ludge, 2003;Aijmer, 2004;Wilamowa, 2005;Metsa-Ketela, 2006, Shirato & Stapleton, 2007Seskauskiene, 2008;Riekkinen, 2009). Hedging is used widely in spoken and written discourses.…”

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An Analysis of Hedging Devices in Complaint Business Letters

Hooi

Shuib

2014

GEMA Online

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“…In many times, we are vague, indirect, and unclear about just what we are committed to. Superficially speaking, this appears to be an inadequacy of human language (Jucker, 2003(Jucker, , p. 1738. Ideally, there is a common assumption that the language which is imprecise and vague should be avoided as a defect whenever possible.…”

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A Pragmatic Analysis of Vague Language in the News Articles on the Iraqi Security Crisis

Khalil

2017

TPLS

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Abstract-There is a well-known belief among linguists and discourse analysts saying that vague language is one of the common features of political language. In order for the linguists to include vague language within the domain of linguistic analysis, they started formulating vagueness within the principles of the pragmalinguistic theory. However, the pragmatic perspective had not been paid much attention yet. With the accelerated events in the Middle East, the best way to get information is to appreciate some news items because they are objective facts that are accessible and easy to comprehend for everybody (Pan, 2012, p. 2530). Iraq has witnessed many periods of serious escalation among which is the one started in April 2014 in which, the ISIS influence started expanding suddenly and rapidly causing infrastructure damage and causalities. The present paper aims at investigating vague expressions in news articles on the security situation in Iraq in the period mentioned above by means of Grice's cooperative principle to find out the purposes vague language serves and its effects on these news articles.

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Interactive aspects of vagueness in conversation

Cited by 236 publications

References 15 publications

Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance

An Analysis of Hedging Devices in Complaint Business Letters

A Pragmatic Analysis of Vague Language in the News Articles on the Iraqi Security Crisis

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