On the optimality of vagueness: "around", "between" and the Gricean maxims.
Why is ordinary language vague? We argue that in contexts in which a cooperative speaker is not perfectly informed about the world, the use of vague expressions can offer an optimal tradeoff between truthfulness (Gricean Quality) and informativeness (Gricean Quantity). Focusing on expressions of app...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 1075 - 1131 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2023
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