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Vagueness expressions in Italian, Spanish and English task-oriented dialogues

Maria VogheraCarla Giovanna Borges

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UNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASLinguistics and Languagebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectvaguenesscorpus linguisticsSpoken EnglishVaguenessArtcomputer.software_genreLanguage and LinguisticsLinguisticsQualitative analysisCorpus linguistics:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]Functional spaceTask orientedArtificial intelligencevagueness Spoken Italian Spoken English Spoken Spanish corpus linguisticsbusinesscomputerNatural language processingSpoken ItalianSpoken Spanishmedia_common

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In this article, we present a corpus-based analysis on the use of Vagueness Expressions (VEs) in Italian, Spanish and English in Task-oriented Dialogues. Following the distinction among informational, relational and discourse vagueness (Voghera 2012), we compare the width of the functional space of the most frequent VEs. In particular we investigate whether and to what extent the VEs cover all the types of vagueness in the three languages. Quantitative and qualitative analysis brings evidence about a high convergence in the vagueness functions expressed by the VEs of the three languages.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2017-06-23Normas
https://doi.org/10.7203/normas.7.10424