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Political language and textual vagueness

Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: It is common sense to say that vagueness is a characteristic of political language. However, to make the concept of vagueness relevant for linguistic analysis it has to be formulated in terms of a pragmalinguistic theory. According to the literature on political language vagueness occurs most often in the area of (party)political
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2017329830
FWCI: 14.23
Cites: 20
Cited by: 96
Related to: 10