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Vagueness in Communication

International Workshop, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. Revised Selected Papers

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Editors:
  1. Rick Nouwen

    1. Utrecht Institute for Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Robert Rooij

    1. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Uli Sauerland

    1. Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany

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  4. Hans-Christian Schmitz

    1. Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • Rick Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland, Hans-Christian Schmitz
    Pages 1-12

  3. On the Psychology of Truth-Gaps

    • Sam Alxatib, Jeff Pelletier
    Pages 13-36

  4. The Rationality of Round Interpretation

    • Harald Bastiaanse
    Pages 37-50

  5. Supervaluationism and Classical Logic

    • Pablo Cobreros
    Pages 51-63

  6. Perceptual Ambiguity and the Sorites

    • Paul Égré
    Pages 64-90

  7. Context-Dependence and the Sorites

    • Graeme Forbes
    Pages 91-107

  8. Temporal Vagueness, Coordination and Communication

    • Ewan Klein, Michael Rovatsos
    Pages 108-126

  9. Vagueness as Probabilistic Linguistic Knowledge

    • Daniel Lassiter
    Pages 127-150

  10. The Relative Role of Property Type and Scale Structure in Explaining the Behavior of Gradable Adjectives

    • Louise McNally
    Pages 151-168

  11. Contradictions at the Borders

    • David Ripley
    Pages 169-188

  12. Notes on the Comparison Class

    • Stephanie Solt
    Pages 189-206

  13. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vagueness in natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht Institute for Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Rick Nouwen

  • Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Robert Rooij

  • Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany

    Uli Sauerland

  • Fraunhofer FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Hans-Christian Schmitz

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