| 独创性声明 | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| ·Tracing the history (of fuzziness) | 第9页 |
| ·Linguistic fuzziness in the historical course | 第9-10页 |
| ·Schema in constructing the framework of the integrated study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Some primary issues of fuzzy languages | 第11-17页 |
| ·Characteristics of fuzziness in natural language | 第12-13页 |
| ·Basic distinctions in fuzzy language | 第13-17页 |
| ·Why preference to 'fuzzy', not other terms | 第13-14页 |
| ·Fuzziness versus generality | 第14页 |
| ·Fuzziness versus ambiguity | 第14-15页 |
| ·Fuzziness versus vagueness | 第15页 |
| ·Fuzziness versus polysemy | 第15-17页 |
| 2 Literature review | 第17-19页 |
| 3 Focusing on semantic fuzziness | 第19-24页 |
| ·Reconsiderations over the already made unsystemantic discussions | 第19-21页 |
| ·Residing places of the unclear borderlines | 第19页 |
| ·Specifications of boundary fuzziness | 第19-20页 |
| ·Semantic or pragmatic perspective | 第20页 |
| ·Radius of the applicability of marked and unmarked units | 第20-21页 |
| ·Semantic continuum | 第21-22页 |
| ·Variability in degree of fuzziness | 第22-24页 |
| 4 Quantitative analysis | 第24-29页 |
| ·Fundamental concepts of fuzzy sets theory | 第24-26页 |
| ·Fuzzy set | 第24页 |
| ·Fuzzy variables | 第24-25页 |
| ·Linguistic variable | 第25-26页 |
| ·Limitations of the mathematical approach | 第26-28页 |
| ·The accurate decimal | 第26-27页 |
| ·The problem of the formula for semantic operation | 第27页 |
| ·The numeral values | 第27-28页 |
| ·Wide appliance of fuzzy language | 第28-29页 |
| 5 Description and measurement of semantic fuzziness | 第29-39页 |
| ·Foundation for the hypothesis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第30页 |
| ·Purpose of research | 第30页 |
| ·Principle of comparison | 第30-33页 |
| ·Principle of contrastiveness | 第30-31页 |
| ·Principle of comparison | 第31-33页 |
| ·Fixing the fuzzy semantic center | 第33-34页 |
| ·Design of the investigation programme | 第33-34页 |
| ·Analysis of the statistic data | 第34页 |
| ·Description of the borderline cases of fuzzy meaning | 第34-36页 |
| ·Structurally overall description of fuzzy semantic unit | 第36-39页 |
| 6 Central area and borderline cases of fuzzy expression | 第39-46页 |
| ·The critical juncture | 第39-40页 |
| ·Cognitive explanation of the 'core' and 'border area' | 第40-46页 |
| 7 Penetrating fuzzy nature in sentences | 第46-54页 |
| 8 Fuzziness and communication | 第54-60页 |
| ·Casual exception------improper fuzziness | 第54-57页 |
| ·Actual cases of fuzziness | 第57-60页 |
| ·Fuzzy additives | 第57-58页 |
| ·Fuzziness by choice of fuzzy words | 第58页 |
| ·Fuzziness by implicature | 第58-60页 |
| 9 Communicative approaches through the use of a typical type of fuzzy expressions----hedges | 第60-74页 |
| ·The theoretical basis | 第60-61页 |
| ·Classified discussions | 第61-66页 |
| ·Approximations | 第62-64页 |
| ·Adaptors | 第62-63页 |
| ·Rounders | 第63-64页 |
| ·Shields | 第64-66页 |
| ·Plausibility shields | 第64-65页 |
| ·Attribution shields | 第65-66页 |
| ·More detailed survey of number approximation | 第66-74页 |
| ·Appropriateness in the right amount of information | 第67-71页 |
| ·Appropriateness in persuasiveness | 第71-74页 |
| 10 Concluding remarks | 第74-76页 |
| Notes | 第76-77页 |
| Bibliographies | 第77-82页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第82-83页 |
