Dynamic Pragmatic Approach To Fuzzy Language

Fuzzy phenomena often occur in the boundary of time or space, and sometimes in the periphery of a concept. The central area of the object is clear. Take as an example "raw rice" versus ooked rice", they can be easily distinguished. What people may feel fuzzy is the "half-done" or "half-cooked" category. Chapter I in this paper presents some definitions of concepts and items relevant to fuzzy linguistics with focus on the distinction of Fuzziness, Vagueness, Generality and Ambiguity.Chapter II in the paper sets out fuzzy semantic approach to accounting for some complexities in general linguistics integrating many true speech conversations in everyday life, such as in the section of 2.1.2, the author employs the fuzzy continuum view to probe the reason that the auxiliary word an" stays unpredictable. Moreover, the author uses the fuzzy gradience method to deal with the matter of dangling participles. An especially complex portion of this paper appears in the section of 2.1.3, quantitative fuzzy semantic analysis; The paper proposes the related mathematical formulae for the quantitative analyses of the examples. However, the effort is just an attempt that needs to be expanded in-depth. The fuzzy quantitative analysis has penetrated into many areas and played a promising role in translatology, rhetorics, phonetics and dialectology. As far as the author is concerned, this area will be a fruitful garden that needs much further attention.One major way in which this paper is perhaps innovative is the dynamic pragmatic analyses of fuzzy languages in Chapter HI. The author attains a higher goal to combine the fuzzy pragmatic analyses with Speech Act Theory, Co-operative Principles and Politeness Maxims. The paper will climax with the assistance of illustrative analyses both in English and in Chinese.It is the author's tentative attempt to analyze the reasons of fuzzy semantic meaning from the scope of intercultural communication, which is also one of the major directions of the author and also an interesting category of sociolinguistics. Details set out in the section of2.1.3.1.The linguistic theoretical research can never be divorced from philosophical argumentand cognitive psychological research. Chapter IV of the paper focuses on the philosophical and cognitive origins of the fuzzy semantic meaning, a cycle which gives expression to falling leaves settling on roots.At the end of this paper, the author uses a few words looking forward to the theoretic and practical prospects of fuzzy language research. The theoretic prospect is to discover the origin of human beings' fuzzy thoughts and of some barriers in cognitive psychology; The practical prospect is to provide the indispensable patterns of pragmatic analysis, namely, the means to the computational linguistics that has been forming in linguistic study.