On Fuzzy Language in Political Public Speeches.doc

黄山学院毕业论文
题目:On Fuzzy Language in Political Public Speeches
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专业: 英语
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二○一一年三月
Acknowledgements
Many people gave me support and help in the process of writing the paper. This thesis would not have pleted without much generous assistance, although the responsibility for its ings rests with me alone.
First of all, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Yin Meng, my supervisor, for all the time and energy he has put into training me as a student of linguistics when I studied at Huang Shan University. He has walked me through all the stages of the writing of this thesis. Without his consistent and illuminating instructions, this thesis could not have reached its present form.
Second, I want to give my special thanks to my mother university and all the teachers in the Foreign Language Department. Without their inspiring lectures and enlightenment during the past three years, pletion of this thesis would be unimaginable.
Third, I would like to give my respect to the authors of the references that give me some insight for my graduation thesis.
Last, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving consideration and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis writing.
Abstract
The fuzziness exists in munication unavoidably. Much progress has been made in the past years in the areas of fuzziness study and its application to various styles. However, little work has been done in the interrelationship between fuzziness and political public speeches.
The dissertation begins with a distinction between the linguistic concepts of fuzziness and vagueness which is made to help understand fuzziness. This paper analyzes basic causes and features of fuzzy language and illustrates its special pragmatic functions: fuzzy language dr