LINGUISTIC AMBIGUITY VERSUS VAGUENESS IN BRITISH PROVERBS

Language, as the main communication tool, serves to deliver a desired message to the interlocutor. Discourse, however, sometimes implies multiple or imprecise meaning, i.e. it is ambiguous or vague. Many language areas and types of discourse are believed to employ the phenomena to achieve a desired...

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Main Authors: Arūnė Kairytė, Lina Bikelienė
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Vilnius University Press 2016-12-01
Series:Verbum
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Online Access:http://www.journals.vu.lt/verbum/article/view/10289