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英语新闻中模糊语言运用分析 Abstract TheuseofvaguelanguageinEnglishnewsnotonlyreflectsthespeaker’suncertainty,ambiguity,andlackofclarity,butalsoservesasastrategictoolforpersuasion,hedging,andpoliteness.Thispaperexaminesthedifferentfunctionsandeffectsofvaguelanguageinnewsdiscourse,suchasnoncommittalexpressions,euphemisms,hedges,andmitigators.Italsoexplorestheculturalandrhetoricalbackgroundofvaguelanguageuseandprovidespracticalimplicationsforlanguagelearningandteaching. Introduction Vaguelanguage,alsoknownasfuzzylanguage,indefinitelanguage,orhedginglanguage,referstothetypeoflanguagethatlacksprecision,specificity,orexplicitnessinmeaning.Vaguelanguagecanbeintentionalorunintentional,andcanbefoundinvariousgenresofdiscourse,includingformalandinformalcommunication,academicwriting,andmediadiscourse.InEnglishnews,vaguelanguageisacommonrhetoricaldeviceusedbyspeakerstoachievevariouscommunicativegoals. ThepurposeofthispaperistoexaminetheroleandfunctionofvaguelanguageinEnglishnews,andtodiscussitsimplicationsforlanguagelearningandteaching.Thepaperisorganizedasfollows:first,itprovidesatheoreticalframeworkofvaguelanguageinnewsdiscourse;second,itanalyzesdifferenttypesofvaguelanguageinnewsdiscourseandtheircommunicativefunctions;third,itdiscussestheculturalandrhetoricalbackgroundofvaguelanguageuseinnewsdiscourse;andfourth,itprovidespracticalimplicationsforlanguagelearningandteachingbasedonthefindingsofthestudy. Theoreticalframeworkofvaguelanguageinnewsdiscourse Vaguelanguageisalinguisticphenomenonthathasbeenstudiedextensivelyindifferentfieldsoflinguistics,includingpragmatics,semantics,discourseanalysis,andsociolinguistics.Inthecontextofnewsdiscourse,vaguelanguageservesvariouscommunicativefunctions,suchaspersuasion,hedging,andpoliteness.AccordingtoBrownandLevinson’s(1987)theoryofpoliteness,usingvaguelanguageisastrategyforavoidingface-threateningactsandpreservingsocialharmony.Similarly,Lakoff’s(1973)theoryofhedgingsuggeststhatvaguelanguageisawayofsofteningexpressionsandmitigatingthepotentialimpactofce