Chapter 3. Vagueness and underspecification as implicit, persuasive and potentially manipulative strategies

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Chapter 3
Vagueness and underspecification as implicit, persuasive and potentially manipulative strategies

Published online: 16 January 2025

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3.1Evolutive and cognitive motivations for linguistic underspecification and vagueness
3.2The discursive functions of intentional vagueness
3.3Vagueness as an implicit strategy: Its persuasive and potentially manipulative functioning
3.4Lexical vagueness
3.5Syntactic vagueness
3.6Vagueness by implicature
- 3.6.1Vagueness by metaphor
- 3.6.2Vagueness by hyperbole
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