| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Fuzziness and Communication: Aa Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| ·Fuzziness and Fuzzy Linguistics | 第11-15页 |
| ·Overt Fuzzy Language and its Properties | 第15-18页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as Communicative Strategies | 第18-20页 |
| ·Organization of this Dissertation | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Two Fuzzy Strategies and their Linguistic Realization | 第21-35页 |
| ·Communicative Strategies and Fuzzy Strategies | 第21-25页 |
| ·Linguistic Realization of Fuzzy Strategies | 第25-34页 |
| ·Hedges | 第25-29页 |
| ·Approximators | 第27-28页 |
| ·Shields | 第28-29页 |
| ·Fuzzy Category Identifiers | 第29-31页 |
| ·Placeholder Words | 第31-33页 |
| ·Round Numbers and Fuzzy Suffixes | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Communicative Functions of Fuzzy Language | 第35-56页 |
| ·Cognitive Function | 第35-41页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as the Balance of Effect and Economy | 第36-39页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language and Categorization | 第39-41页 |
| ·Semantic Function | 第41-45页 |
| ·Fuzziness and Meaning Interpretation | 第41-43页 |
| ·Hedging as an Decrease in Fuzziness | 第43-45页 |
| ·Pragmatic Function | 第45-54页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language and the Cooperative Principle | 第45-47页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language and Conversational Implicature | 第47-51页 |
| ·Generalized Conversational Implicature | 第48-49页 |
| ·Particularized Conversational Implicature | 第49页 |
| ·Defeasibility of Conversational Implicature | 第49-51页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language and the Politeness Principle | 第51-53页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language and the Face Theory | 第53-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Four Applications of Fuzzy Strategies in Verbal Communication | 第56-74页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Gap-filling Strategy | 第56-59页 |
| ·Information Gap | 第56-58页 |
| ·Lexical Gap | 第58-59页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Cooperative Strategy | 第59-63页 |
| ·Fuzziness as a Signal of One's Uncertainty | 第60-62页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as the Phatic Communion | 第62-63页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Tentativeness Strategy | 第63-65页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Politeness Strategy | 第65-68页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Negative Politeness Strategy | 第65-67页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Positive Politeness Strategy | 第67-68页 |
| ·Fuzzy Language as a Self-protection Strategy | 第68-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding Remarks | 第74-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-81页 |
