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EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN TED TALKS ON EDUCATION
VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 2019 This paper aims to investigate the epistemic markers in TED talks. The data for the study is 100 TED talks on education. The mixed method of both the quantitative and qualitative approaches was manipulated to capture the use of the linguistic means to ...
Ton Nu My Nhat, Nguyen Thi Dieu Minh
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Lexeme 'valjda' as an exponent of epistemic modality [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThis paper aims to describe the functional and semantic characteristics of the word valjda in the Serbian language. Corpus examples are used as a methodological tool for comparing the lexeme valjda to its closest synonym verovatno, in terms of their ...
Stojanović Milena S. +2 more
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Language and Dialogue, 2013 In recent years, the standard account of epistemic modal discourse has been criticized from two directions. Expressivists and dynamic semanticists argue that simple epistemic modal sentences should be understood as non-truth-conditional. Relativists hold that the truth values of epistemic modal sentences are determined by the features of their contexts
Zoltán Vecsey
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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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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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Epistemic Modality in Selected Presidential Inaugurals in Ghana
Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2021 This paper employed the qualitative research approach to investigate the use of epistemic modality (EM) in four selected inaugural speeches of ex-presidents in the fourth republic of Ghana.
Cletus Komudayiri Kantorgorje +2 more
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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 +2 more
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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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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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Epistemic Modals in Hypothetical Reasoning [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2022 AbstractData involving epistemic modals suggest that some classically valid argument forms, such as reductio, are invalid in natural language reasoning as they lead to modal collapses. We adduce further data showing that the classical argument forms governing the existential quantifier are similarly defective, as they lead to a de re–de dicto collapse.
Maria Aloni +2 more
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