Your humble writer knows a little bit about a lot of things, but despite writing a fair amount about text processing (a book, for example), linguistic processing is a relatively novel area for me.
Pragmatics has set up a brand new area for linguistic research and found a breach for some thorny problems emerged in syntax and semantics.
语用学为语言学研究开辟了一个崭新的领域，为解决一些原来句法学和语义学难以解释的问题找到了突破口。
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Vague language is an interesting linguistic phenomenon which forms a considerable part of language, yet not investigated systematically and remains a relatively unworked area.