Vagueness in Communication: International Workshop, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6517))

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, VIC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, in Bordeaux, France, July 20-24, 2009. The 11 contributions presented shed a light on new aspects in the area of vagueness in natural language communication. In contrast to the classical instruments of dealing with vagueness - like multi-valued logics, truth value gaps or gluts, or supervaluations - this volume presents new approaches like context-sensitivity of vagueness, the sharpening of vague predicates in context, and the modeling of precision levels. Front Matter....Pages - Introduction....Pages 1-12 On the Psychology of Truth-Gaps....Pages 13-36 The Rationality of Round Interpretation....Pages 37-50 Supervaluationism and Classical Logic....Pages 51-63 Perceptual Ambiguity and the Sorites....Pages 64-90 Context-Dependence and the Sorites....Pages 91-107 Temporal Vagueness, Coordination and Communication....Pages 108-126 Vagueness as Probabilistic Linguistic Knowledge....Pages 127-150 The Relative Role of Property Type and Scale Structure in Explaining the Behavior of Gradable Adjectives....Pages 151-168 Contradictions at the Borders....Pages 169-188 Notes on the Comparison Class....Pages 189-206 Back Matter....Pages -