In line with recent interest in weak and often not fully determinate effects of communication permeating relevance-theoretic research, I contribute a discussion on two possible sources of speaker-intended indeterminacy within explicit import of an utterance: one residing in an intentionally underspecified location of an ad hoc concept between literal or non-literal (e.g. metaphorical or hyperbolic) interpretation, and the other lying in the higher-level explicature of an utterance, and being related to propositional attitude (e.g. pretence, reporting, dissociation) or speech-act description (e.g. complementing, reproaching). In both cases, the speaker leaves a certain amount of indeterminacy concerning the degree of her commitment to the content communicated, by not indicating where precisely the concept or the attitude is to be located on the literalness-metaphor continuum or on the continuum of various propositional attitudes/speech-act descriptions, respectively. Using a number of illustrative examples drawn from television discourse, I try to show that this kind of intended indeterminacy gives rise to communicative effects of a non-propositional kind. Additionally, the analyses presented here support the deflationary view of figurative uses of language, on which they form continua with non-figurative utterances.

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通过在话语的明确输入中利用不确定性而变得矛盾

根据最近对渗透相关理论研究的传播的微弱且通常不完全确定的影响的兴趣，我对话语的明确输入中说话者意图不确定性的两个可能来源进行了讨论：一个存在于故意未指定的位置字面或非字面（如隐喻或双曲线）解释之间的特殊概念，另一个位于话语的更高层次的解释中，并与命题态度（如假装、报告、分离）或言语行为描述相关（例如，补充、责备）。在这两种情况下，说话者都对她对所传达内容的承诺程度留下了一定的不确定性，通过不指明概念或态度分别位于字面-隐喻连续体或各种命题态度/言语行为描述的连续体中的确切位置。使用从电视话语中提取的一些说明性例子，我试图表明这种有意的不确定性会产生非命题类型的交际效果。此外，此处提供的分析支持语言的比喻使用的紧缩观点，它们与非比喻话语形成连续体。我试图证明这种有意的不确定性会产生非命题类型的交际效果。此外，此处提供的分析支持语言的比喻使用的紧缩观点，它们与非比喻话语形成连续体。我试图证明这种有意的不确定性会产生非命题类型的交际效果。此外，此处提供的分析支持语言的比喻使用的紧缩观点，它们与非比喻话语形成连续体。