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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2021 Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
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Topoi, 2016 At the center of the debate between contextualist versus relativist semantics for epistemic modal claims is an empirical question about when competent subjects judge epistemic modal disagreement to be present. John MacFarlane’s relativist claims that we judge there to be epistemic modal disagreement across the widest range of cases.
Jonah Katz, Joe Salerno
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014 The present paper analyses the verbal expression of deontic, epistemic and performative values in the English, Italian and Spanish versions of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, a treaty of the Council of Europe which aims to ...
Mariangela COPPOLELLA
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Particules/adverbes exprimant la modalité épistémique : Vers la comparaison des systèmes des langues tchèque et française // Articles/adverbs expressing epistemic modality : towards the comparison of Czech and French language systems [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty evaluation of the proposition’s validity. The French and Czech approaches are compared to show the common bases for this linguistic matter.
Michaela Vybíhalová
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2022 This study examines the use of epistemic modality (expressions that signal varying degrees of certainty and subjectivity) by writers of English education research.
May Mahdi Alramadan
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Some Remarks on the Model Theory of Epistemic Plausibility Models [PDF]
, 2010 Classical logics of knowledge and belief are usually interpreted on Kripke models, for which a mathematically well-developed model theory is available. However, such models are inadequate to capture dynamic phenomena.
Aucher G. +7 more
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On objective and subjective epistemic modality again
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2018 This aim of this chapter is to prove the linguistic reality of the distinction be-tween objective and subjective epistemic modality as made in FDG, according to which the former modifies the Episode and the latter the Propositional Content.
H. Olbertz +1 more
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, 2017 Epistemic adverbs, like other markers of epistemic modality, are concerned with the speaker’s assessment of the truth value of the proposition. In other words, they indicate that the speaker considers certain situations as possible, impossible, probable,
Agata Rozumko
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La traducció de la modalitat deòntica i epistèmica del verb modal sollen en el corpus COVALT [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses the translations of the modal verb sollen in the corpus COVALT. First, the deontic and epistemic modality of the verb in German and Catalan are pointed out, and a taxonomy on the use of sollen is suggested ...
Guzmán Pitarch, Josep Roderic
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Epistemic modality in political discourse [PDF]
, 2017 By analyzing the statements of the US president Bush, the British PM Blair and other members of their administration, the aim of this paper is to show how politicians use epistemic modality to express their assumptions or the truth of the way they ...
Milkovich, M., Sitarica, A.
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