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Epistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries
Epistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries私達が発話をする際には、概ね、聞き手に対して何らかの影響を与えようとしていると言って良いが、それは、しばしば聞き手にとって直接的過ぎたり、話者の主観的な振る舞いをしている。それらの陳述緩和の作用を果たす要素の一つが法助動詞の使用である。本論文においては、法助動詞が特定のコンテクストにおいて、どのような役割を果たしているのかを考察する。
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Strategic citizen engagement is fundamental to the socio‐technical transition toward sustainable urban mobility. This study investigates the integration of digital participatory tools within the transport planning framework of Dublin, Ireland, to facilitate inclusive, transparent, and equitable governance.
Sarbast Moslem, Brian Caulfield
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, 2009 I present an analysis of the notion of epistemic modalities, based on an appropriate interpretation of two basic constructivist issues: verification and epistemic agency. Starting from an historical analysis of conditions for judgments, I analyze first the reading of necessity with respect to apodictic judgements, and then that of possibility with ...
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen +3 more
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Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Temporal grammars of novelty: How carbon removal entrepreneurs frame new technologies
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This paper assesses the ways in which carbon dioxide removal ventures frame their work. Drawing on George Herbert Mead's philosophy of the present, it conceptualizes temporal grammars of novelty as a framing strategy that involves connecting two points in time, namely present and future, to elaborate novelty.
Ioana Sendroiu
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing convergence between artificial intelligence (AI) and biological sciences has revealed important conceptual parallels between computational systems and ecological processes. This study proposes a systems‐based framework to move beyond purely metaphorical comparisons by distinguishing three analytical levels of correspondence between
João Marcos Rodrigues dos Santos
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study addresses the limitations of reductionist approaches to citizens' proenvironmental behaviour (PEB) by adopting a systems thinking perspective. Using qualitative system dynamics, it develops a causal loop diagram for proenvironmental behaviour (CLD‐PEB) that conceptualizes PEB as a dynamic system generated through interacting ...
Doyeon Ko +2 more
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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