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Dynamics of Epistemic Modality
The Philosophical Review, 2013 A dynamic semantics for epistemically modalized sentences is an attractive alternative to the orthodox view that our best theory of meaning ascribes to such sentences truth-conditions relative to what is known. This essay demonstrates that a dynamic theory about might and must offers elegant explanations of a range of puzzling observations about ...
M. Willer
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Epistemic Modality De Re [PDF]
Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2015 S. Yalcin
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On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs
Journal of Pragmatics, 2022 This paper argues for a conceptual distinction between epistemic modality and discourse strategy, and aims to disentangle both notions by showing how they relate to each other on the basis of corpus data.
Vítor Míguez
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Thinking aloud: the role of epistemic modality in reasoning in primary education classrooms
Language and Education, 2022 Thinking together in primary classrooms has received much scholarly attention in recent years, with a focus on educational dialogue at the forefront of studies concerned with identifying what constitutes effective language for learning.
Fiona Maine, A. Cermakova
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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]
, 2022 This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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Norm Conflicts and Epistemic Modals
Cognitive Psychology, 2023 Statements containing epistemic modals (e.g., "by spring 2023 most European countries may have the Covid-19 pandemic under control") are common expressions of epistemic uncertainty. In this paper, previous published findings (Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo & Phillips, 2018) on the opposition between Contextualism and Relativism for epistemic modals are re ...
Niels Skovgaard-Olsen, John Cantwell
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Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023 The article presents the results of the empirical study aimed at revealing epistemic modality realization in utterances with the verb would in English publicistic texts of analytical political articles.
А. N. Morozova, Yu. V. Karaulshchikova
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Appellative Constructions with Epistemic Modality Predicates
Научный диалог, 2023 The object of the study is parenthetical constructions, represented in the language by three types — modal, reflexive and appellative. Modal introductory constructions denote the modal status of a proposition.
E. R. Ioanesyan
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Embedding Epistemic Modals [PDF]
Mind, 2013 Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin If it is raining and it might not be raining, sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin If it is raining and I don t know it, .
Dorr, C, Hawthorne, J
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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 AbstractExpressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional content. Instead, they hold that it expresses a lack of acceptance (that Jane isn’t late). Prominent expressivists embrace pragmatic expressivism: the doxastic property expressed by a declarative ...
Peter Hawke, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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