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1. academic.oup.com › book › 26235Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language | Oxford Academic

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   Jan 6, 2014 · The book contends that previous accounts have made two critical mistakes: they suppose that a semantic (non-epistemic) theory must abandon bivalence, and they overlook the character of ordinary speech using vague words. The book develops a new theory of vagueness — the multiple range theory — that corrects these errors.

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     Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language Diana Raffman....

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     I thought that insofar as language is vague, semantics could...

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     Abstract. Chapter 4 gets to the heart of the theory: the...

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2. ndpr.nd.edu › reviews › unruly-words-a-study-ofUnruly Words: A Study of Vague Language | Reviews | Notre ...

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   Let us now turn to how Raffman deals with the most central tasks for a theory of vagueness, i.e., accounting for truth and validity and solving the Sorites paradox. On MRT, the extension of a vague predicate and the truth-value of a vague sentence containing it are relative to a V-index and a range of application.

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4. philosophynow.org › issues › 100Derrida On Language | Issue 100 | Philosophy Now

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   Peter Benson tells us what language is and isn’t according to Jacques Derrida. Early in the Twentieth Century, philosophy diverged into two camps: analytic and Continental philosophy.

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   I thought that insofar as language is vague, semantics could not be divorced from psychology in the way most philosophers of language have supposed. Those early papers received some attention but also met with skepticism.

6. academic.oup.com › book › 262355 The Competent Use of Vague Words - Oxford Academic

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   A psychological experiment performed by the author and two colleagues reveals that competent use of these words has a dynamical property, known as hysteresis, that helps to explain how the multiple range semantics could be implemented in their competent use.

7. oxfordre.com › communication › displayLanguage and Power | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of ...

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   Language is a natural human system of conventionalized symbols that have understood meanings. Through it humans express and communicate their private thoughts and feelings as well as enact various social functions.

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   Why do languages have extralinguistic powers?

   • Two of them stem from preexisting powers behind language that it reveals and reflects, thereby transferring the extralinguistic powers to the communication context. Such powers exist at both the micro and macro levels.

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   Why is English a global language?

   • In the case of modern English, its preeminent status as a global language and international lingua franca has shaped the communication between native and nonnative English speakers because of the power of the English-speaking world that it reflects, rather than because of its linguistic superiority.

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   Why is language so powerful?

   • Language is also a versatile communication medium, often and widely used in tandem with music, pictures, and actions to amplify its power. Silence, too, adds to the force of speech when it is used strategically to speak louder than words. The wide range of language functions and its versatility combine to make language powerful.

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   Does language have power?

   • Research on the power of language takes the view that language has power of its own. This power allows a language to maintain the power behind it, unite or divide a nation, and create influence. In Figure 1 we have grouped the five language–power relationships into five boxes.

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   Did written language exist before spoken language?

   • In Derrida’s view, all linguistic theories, from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, have given undue importance to writing rather than speech. However, it is indeed probable that spoken language existed before written language. Even this, however, is not certain.

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   Can language divide a nation?

   • Yet language is a two-edged sword: It can also divide a nation. The tension can be seen in competing claims to official-language status made by minority language communities, protest over maintenance of minority languages, language rights at schools and in courts of law, bilingual education, and outright language wars (Calvet, 1998; DeVotta, 2004).

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9. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Unruly-Words:-AUnruly Words: A Study of Vague Language - Semantic Scholar

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   Dec 4, 2013 · Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have come out of the …