Abstract:

     Vagueness is an important feature of natural language and also the objective property of language, which makes no prejudice to the communication. As vague can be clarified by verbal and nonverbal means in real communication. The pragmatic use of vagueness in language has aroused great concern of scholars, and the research of it developed rapidly and extends to all areas. So far, the research result of vague phenomenon not only limited in the theoretical level, but also valued by other areas of pragmatic such as education, translation, daily communication and cultural studies and etc. Moreover, these researches about vagueness and their results made a great contribution to the teaching of Chinese and the learning of second language for those whose mother tongue is Chinese. This article made a comparative analysis to English and Chinese languages fuzziness from their voice, vocabulary and sentence structures. Thus, this study also contributes to Chinese-speaking learners of Second Language Acquisition.

Keywords: vagueness in Chinese; vagueness in English; vague language;comparison.

Content

摘要：

Abstract:

Introduction-1

Chapter One Brief introduction of vague phenomenon in language-3

Chapter Two Vague Phenomenon in Chinese-4

2.1 Vague Caused by Phonological Factors-4

2.2 Vague Caused by Vocabulary-4

 2.2.1 Vague Caused by Semantic Category Conversion-5

        2.2.2 Vague Caused by Uncertain Boundary Limitation-6

2.3 Vague Caused by Sentence Structures-8

Chapter Three Vague Phenomenon in English-9

3.1 Vague Caused by Phonological Factors-9

3.2 Vague Caused by Vocabulary-10

 3.2.1 Vague Caused by Semantic Category Conversion-10

 3.2.2 Vague Caused by Uncertain Boundary Limitation-12

3.3 Vague Caused by Sentence Structures-13

Chapter Four Comparison of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English-14

4.1  Similarity of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English-14

 4.1.1 Vagueness of Vocabulary in both English and Chinese-14

 4.1.2 Vagueness of Voice in both English and Chinese-15

 4.1.3 Vagueness of Sentence Structure in both English and Chinese-16

4.2 Differences of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English-16

 4.2.1 Differences of Vocabulary in English and Chinese-17

 4.2.2 Difference of Sentence Structure in English and Chinese-17

Chapter Five Summary and Suggestion-19

5.1 Summary-19

5.2 Further Suggestion of Studying Vague Phenomenon in English-20

Conclusion-21

Bibliography-22

Acknowledgments-23