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Epistemic Modality: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Epistemic Markers in EU and Polish Judgments [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2020 The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed by
Koźbiał Dariusz
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Strong epistemic modality in parliamentary discourse [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2014 Sounding convincing in order to convince ‒ this simple strategy seems to come in handy for politicians trying to win over the electorate. Strong epistemic modality, which allows politicians to express a great degree of commitment to the truth of the ...
Vukovic Milica
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JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2023 Court judgments serve as important precedents for future judicial decision-making in common law systems. The legal meanings of judgments are conveyed by specific linguistic devices, among which epistemic modality plays an important role in indicating the
Yanfang Su +2 more
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A Modal Logic of Epistemic Games [PDF]
Games, 2010 We propose some variants of a multi-modal of joint action, preference and knowledge that support reasoning about epistemic games in strategic form. The first part of the paper deals with games with complete information. We first provide syntactic proofs of some well-known theorems in the area of interactive epistemology that specify some sufficient ...
Emiliano Lorini +1 more
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2022 Minor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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Epistemic modality, particles and the potential optative in Classical Greek [PDF]
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2019 This paper challenges the commonly held view that the Classical Greek potential optative has a subjective epistemic semantics, the result of a conceptual confusion of subjectivity and epistemic modality inherited from our standard grammars.
La Roi, Ezra
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Means of Expression of Epistemic Modality in Russian Political Discourse
Respectus Philologicus, 2019 This paper discusses the means of epistemic modality used in Russian political discourse. Russian political leaders most often use epistemic modal adverbs and mental state predicates in their speeches for hedging purposes.
Živilė Nemickienė
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Epistemic Modality in Georgian
Verbum, 2015 The epistemic modality consists of epistemic possibility and necessity. Particle “Unda” (must) is the main formative of the epistemic necessity. Originating from a notional verb, it still retains its verbal functions.
Nino Sharashenidze
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“We believe in democracy…”: Epistemic Modality in Justin Trudeau’s Political Speeches
Jurnal Humaniora, 2019 This article investigates epistemic modality in political discourse. It focuses on modality markers in terms of their word classes, semantic meanings and discourse functions in political speeches.
Tofan Dwi Hardjanto, Nala Mazia
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