In:Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy:
Giorgia Mannaioli
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 350] 2025
► pp. 271–272
Index
Published online: 16 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.350.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.350.si
- (non-)bona fide true 59, 159, 169, 174, 192, 222
- (un)falsifiability 58, 63, 64, 88, 93, 218
A
- accuracy 3, 4, 6, 13, 53, 55, 56, 85, 105, 137, 159, 186, 212
- adaptability 41, 48, 54
- adjuncts90
- ambiguity advantage effect 120, 123
- ambiguity 35–40, 51, 86, 99, 100, 105, 119–123
- approximation 9, 19, 24, 28–31, 33, 38, 41–43, 48, 53, 55, 56, 64, 70, 71, 75, 85, 86, 91, 99, 103, 109–114, 136, 157, 158, 168
- arbitrariness 13, 190
B
- borderline cases 19–26, 32, 35, 39, 101, 104, 124, 150, 151, 154, 176, 178
- bounded rationality 1, 48, 67
- broadening 41, 42
- bushes30
C
- channel capacity 8, 12, 49
- cognitive constraints 1, 48, 222
- cognitive optimism 67, 174
- complement omission 86, 87, 90
- confirmation bias 63, 66–68, 222
- connotation 37, 63–68, 78–80, 84, 91, 93, 106, 109, 115, 152, 153, 166, 171, 173, 175, 178, 180–182, 186, 191, 193, 194, 196, 216, 219, 220
- context-dependency 27, 28, 31, 43, 60, 70, 73, 85, 120, 152
- contextual precisation 69–72
- Contextualism 21, 23–28, 34, 60, 61, 119
- conversation score 27, 28
- conversational implicature 32, 41, 57, 78, 93–97, 99, 116, 117, 152, 174, 176, 185, 195, 218
- cooperation/cooperativeness 10, 15, 31, 46, 56–61, 74, 90, 95, 168, 222
- cost reduction hypothesis 122, 125, 126, 135, 136
- creativity 16, 17, 24, 102, 103
- credibility 68, 86, 113, 140, 173
D
- denotation 15, 24, 37, 63–69, 77–80, 84, 85, 93, 95, 101, 106, 108, 109, 115, 116, 121, 126, 152, 158, 166, 178, 182, 185, 186, 193, 196, 202, 216, 220
- deresponsibilization 56, 58, 113, 157, 167, 174, 180, 202, 223
- discursive functions 2, 30, 43, 45, 55, 56, 153, 173, 180, 197, 212, 219–221
- disenchantment syndrome139
E
- economy 11, 18, 19, 46, 48–50, 57, 59, 87, 88, 106, 135, 136, 222
- egocentric bias 67, 124, 184, 222
- epistemic vagueness 5, 21, 48
- epistemic vigilance 124, 136, 137, 180
- ethos 68, 158, 168, 176, 194, 223
F
- face/face-threatening 58, 59, 82, 143, 164, 174, 219
- fast and frugal heuristics 48, 135
- female register142
- flexibility 12, 16, 17, 42, 50, 54, 56, 99, 102, 136, 186, 187
- fuzziness 5, 6, 13, 15, 19, 29, 30, 32, 37, 38, 62, 65, 151, 152, 166, 185, 196, 200
- fuzzy logic 5, 22
- fuzzy semantics5
G
- genderlect142
- general extenders 31–34, 85, 171, 172, 192
- general nouns/general expressions 32, 33, 37, 75, 85, 151
- generality 33–36, 39, 74
- generalization 48, 53
- good-enough representations 126, 135
- gradability 4, 19, 20, 41, 62, 73, 111
- Gricean maxims 30, 57, 58, 94, 98, 121
H
- hedges 22, 29, 30, 75, 86, 111, 142, 143, 151, 157, 171, 172, 185, 192, 216, 217
- higher-order vagueness20
- homonymy 38, 41, 123
- hyperbole 42, 43, 55, 95–99, 103, 110–114, 153, 165, 169, 174, 176–183, 195, 196, 218
- hypernymy 38, 129
I
- ideology/ideological159
- IMPAQTS corpus 146, 148, 153
- impersonal constructions30
- implicitness 59, 60, 112
- imprecision 28, 33, 42, 70
- impression of meaning194
- in-group/out-group 57, 140, 159, 162, 173, 183
- indefiniteness 28, 33, 36, 72, 85, 95, 137
- indefinites 75, 85, 128, 129, 137, 168–170, 192, 216
- indeterminacy 4, 16, 32, 33, 65–69, 73, 85, 88, 94, 95, 99, 103, 105, 146, 222
- informative asymmetry 159, 216
- intentionality continuum55
- irony 32, 40, 95–99, 102
L
- Lablita corpus180
- language evolution 45, 46, 54
- learnability48
- logos 68, 159, 194
- loose uses 28, 33, 42, 55, 110, 112, 176
- loosening 41, 42
M
- machine learning8
- manipulation 63, 67, 213
- many-valued logic21
- memory/mnemonic 38, 48, 54, 129, 153, 197
- metaphoricity 16, 24
- mind reading52
- minimal commitment 120, 126, 136
- mitigation 29, 30, 33, 56, 57, 142, 143, 157, 182, 210
N
- narrowing41
- ontological vagueness 4, 8, 9
- open-texture 24, 76, 78, 127, 148
- ostensive-inferential communication52
P
- pathos 64, 65, 68, 159
- physiological constraints 46, 54
- physiological vagueness 9, 13
- placeholders 29, 31, 33, 151, 157, 171
- plausible deniability59
- politeness 30, 56–60, 82, 142, 143, 157, 180, 182, 217, 221
- polysemy advantage effect 123, 125, 126, 136
- polysemy 16, 17, 35, 37–42, 56, 123, 125, 126, 136
- populism / populist 66, 139, 140, 144, 162, 176, 182
- pragmatic strengthening143
- precisification 21, 43, 61, 64, 70, 74, 84, 105, 106, 112, 113
- precision 15, 22, 25–28, 33, 42, 46, 47, 70, 85, 125, 136, 168, 185
- presuppositions 22, 27, 57, 116, 124, 137, 138, 175, 224
- principle of least effort49
- pro-forms 32, 76, 161, 162, 190, 212, 213, 220
- Prototype Theory 19, 22
Q
- quantifiers 31, 34, 72, 129
- referential multiplicity69
- referentiality 32, 151, 152
- Relevance Theory50
- responsibility 30, 58, 167, 174
S
- sales resistance 67, 124, 196
- saliency 13, 18, 27
- semantic roles 86, 150, 151, 163, 165, 167, 191, 213
- semiotic vagueness 3, 4
- shallow processing 135, 182
- shields 29–34, 85, 157
- signalling game47
- signifiant (signifier) 13, 15
- signifié (signified) 13, 15
- Sorites Paradox 5, 19
- soritical vagueness 8, 18, 20
- Subvaluationism21
- super-true/super-false 21, 28, 61, 64, 74, 84, 104, 106, 112, 113, 137, 159, 162, 166, 173, 182, 192, 202, 222
- Supervaluationism21
- syntactic arguments 90, 149
- syntactic functions 16, 149, 153, 181, 201, 207
- systemic vagueness 8, 10, 15, 55, 56, 222
T
- tenor100
- thematic roles 150, 160
- tolerance 15, 24, 27
- topicalizations 116, 124, 153, 180
U
- underdetermination 15, 17, 18, 34, 35, 52, 104, 122, 134
- underspecification 8, 34, 125, 135
- Universal Dependencies database160
V
- vagueness (c)overtness continuum85
- vagueness advantage effect136
- vehicle100
