Chapter 5. Vagueness in political speeches

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Chapter 5
Vagueness in political speeches

Published online: 16 January 2025

Article outline

5.1The historical and political context
- 5.1.1The Third Republic
5.2The corpus
5.3Methodology
5.4Quantitative analysis of lexical vagueness, syntactic vagueness and vagueness by metaphor
- 5.4.1Discussion
5.5Linguistic anatomy of vagueness in the political corpus: Quali-quantitative cross-level analysis
- 5.5.1Morphosyntactic level
- 5.5.2Syntactic-semantic interface
  - 5.5.2.1Lexical vagueness’ and vagueness by metaphor’s thematic roles
  - 5.5.2.2Thematic roles of syntactic vagueness’ omitted constituents
- 5.5.3Semantic level
- 5.5.4Semantics-Pragmatics interface
- 5.5.5Pragmatic level
5.6Analysis summary
Notes