That is to say, a conscious and meaningful use of hedges would greatly help the teacher to accomplish the goal of effective teaching. From the point of view of pragmatics, an empirical study of hedges will be of vital importance in college E...

The author illustrates some false examples of public signs and the backbone of pragmatic theory, which applies to translate public signs by comparison of other pragmatic principals. This study is inclined to show that public signs will be pr...

Fuzzy language is one of the intrinsic and indispensable features in natural language. It refers to the form of language whose concepts of linguistic expressions do not have sharply defined boundaries, or the natural language that has fuzzin...

Vague language are widely used in daily activities, including business negotiations. As a pragmatic strategy, it is very helpful for negotiators to reach their negotiation aims. Correctly and appropriately using vague language can make langu...

Guided by pragmatic failure theory home and aboard, this thesis makes a tentative study from the perspective of cross-cultural communication and pragmatics, aiming at probing into the cross-cultural pragmatic differences behind, and explorin...