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hina Daily.  Through  the  elaborate  research,  the  author  tries  to  demonstrate  that  fuzzy language in social news flouts one maxim of CP so as to obey another. Furthermore, the author aims to explain the seven pragmatic functions of fuzzy language in social news  cited  from  the  English  version  of  China  Daily:  (1)strengthening  the credibility of  news;  (2)enhancing  the  reliability  of  news;  (3)protecting  reporters/writers; (4)avoiding  absoluteness  in  news  reporting;  (5)corresponding  to  the  reading psychology  of readers;  (6)avoiding  negative  effects;  and  (7)increasing  the  efficiency of expressions.  
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Chapter 2 Literature Review 

As is widely known that most of the expressions people use in natural language are fuzzy for the reason that it is difficult for people to specify a constant and unique boundary between the objects to which the expressions apply and those to which they don't. For example, the adjective 'high' does not have a sharp range (does 100 meters could be counted as 'high'? than how about 500 meters?). Similarly, another adjective 'beautiful' does not provide a precise standard for people to decide to what degree can a person or  a thing be described  as beautiful. As the  phenomenon of fuzzy  language has  aroused  great  interest  among  linguists  and  scholars,  next  the author  will  analyze fuzzy language in detail.  

2.1 Definition of Fuzzy Language
It  is  difficult  to  define  fuzziness  as  the  nature  of  language  itself  is  fuzzy. Although much effort has been made by a number of researchers abroad and at home, until now, there is no universally agreed definition on fuzzy language and researchers have different opinions about the properties of fuzziness.  The term 'fuzzy' is derived from fuzzy mathematics developed by  L. A. Zadeh (1965) who suggests that fuzziness can be formally handled in terms of a fuzzy set, a class of entities with a continuum of grades of membership in his 'fuzzy set' theory. Crystal  (1991)  defines  fuzziness  as  a  term  derives  from  mathematics  and  used  by some  linguists  to  refer  to  the  indeterminacy  involved  in  the  analysis  of  a  linguistic unit or pattern. Lakoff (1972) and Mc Cawley (1981) also use the word 'fuzzy' to show that there is a certain degree of fuzziness around componential boundaries. Vagueness  is  one  of  the  synonyms  of  fuzziness  and  in  broad  sense  they  are  in common.  The  notion  of  vagueness  in  language  is  originated  abroad  and  Pierce  is often regarded as the first  person to try  to define its concept. A proposition is vague where there are possible states of things concerning which it is intrinsically uncertain whether, had they been contemplated by the speaker, he would本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。