FLT CREW AND ATC MISCOMS DURING TAXI.

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AS WE TAXIED FROM OUR GATE IN CLT; RAMP CTL GAVE US CLRNC TO TAXI TO SPOT X AND CONTACT GND WHEN APCHING; AND WAS COMPLIED WITH. GND CTL WAS CONTACTED AT SPOT X AND THEY GAVE THE CLRNC TO 'TAXI VIA TXWY F; TXWY M; AND TXWY E TO RWY 36L AND GIVE WAY TO THE DASH 8 FROM THE L ON TXWY M' AND WAS READ BACK BY THE CAPT. THE FO WAS RESPONDING TO A CALL FROM THE FLT ATTENDANT AT THIS TIME STATING THAT THE CABIN WAS READY FOR TKOF. AS WE PROCEEDED S ON TXWY F APPROX 75 FT FROM TXWY M; SIMULTANEOUSLY THE FO WAS TALKING IN MY ONE EAR STATING THAT HE WAS BACK ON COM #1 WHILE RESPONDING TO ATC'S NEW INSTRUCTION TO 'GIVE WAY TO THE DASH ON THE L AND HOLD SHORT OF TXWY M.' AS I READ THIS BACK TO GND CTL; GND IMMEDIATELY CAME BACK AND SAID 'NO; I DON'T WANT YOU TO GIVE WAY TO THE DASH.' HEARING THIS; AND AS I WAS ALREADY STARTING TO SLOW FOR TXWY M; IT WAS ALREADY TOO CLOSE AND TOO LATE TO STOP FOR TXWY M AND AS WE ROLLED INTO THE INTXN BROUGHT THE ACFT TO A STOP; INFORMED THE CTLR THAT HIS LAST INSTRUCTION WAS CONFUSING AND ASKED HIM FOR FURTHER CLARIFICATION. HE THEN TOLD US TO TURN 'R ON TXWY M; L ON TXWY E; AND SHORT OF RWY 5' AND WE COMPLIED WITH. I BELIEVE THE GND CTLR HAD INTENTIONS OF SEQUENCING BOTH THE DASH 8 AND THE EMBRAER 145 JET THAT WAS SEVERAL HUNDRED FT BEHIND THE DASH IN FRONT OF US BECAUSE AS WE HELD SHORT OF RWY 5 BOTH ACFT TAXIED BY US S ON TXWY F. I THINK THIS INCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE GND CTLR'S INSTRUCTIONS WERE MORE CLR; LIKE 'I NEED YOU TO NOW HOLD SHORT OF TXWY M IF YOU CAN;' AND BY GIVING THE INSTRUCTION SOONER. ALSO; IF BOTH PLTS WERE ON COM #1 WE WOULD HAVE REALIZED THAT IT WAS GIVEN TOO LATE AND WE WOULD HAVE SAID UNABLE TO HOLD SHORT OF TXWY M.