期刊名称：Intercâmbio. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem. ISSN 2237-759X
印刷版ISSN：2237-759X
出版年度：1999
卷号：8
期号：0
页码：1-10
出版社：Intercâmbio. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem. ISSN 2237-759X
摘要：The concept of indeterminacy and of its linguistic manifestations such as vagueness, ambiguity, indirectivity and metaphor imply the possibility of the existence of opposing phenomena such as literality, determinacy and semantic transparency. In this paper, this dichotomy is treated as problematic. As result, we propose a conceptualization of indeterminacy where this is viewed not as a characteristic of interaction or discourse processing, but as a phenomenon of metalanguage. Aspects of discourse which seem to reflect a set of assumptions about the stability of meaning are analysed and treated as evidence of the metalinguistic nature of (in)determinacy.
