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Asserting epistemic modals

Linguistics and Philosophy
Abstract The paper formalizes a change of camera angle on the classic Stalnakerian account of assertion, foregrounding that the speaker is presenting herself as though she knows the sentence she’s uttered to be true, and deriving context update from a proposal that the context set be modified so as to become a member of the same property of ...
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Modality of Lexicographic Discourse in Dictionaries of Usage

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2012
Dictionaries are increasingly making use of corpus data or, at least, of secondary sources based on them. This has brought about a revision of the concept of the standard of usage and changes in modality of lexicographic discourse, first in general ...
Jeļena Dorošenko
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Grammaticalization, polysemy and iterated modality: the case of should.

Corela, 2007
This article addresses the question of iterated modality from the twofold perspective of grammaticalization and polysemy through the semantic description of various uses of should in contemporary English, and more particularly that of “meditative-polemic
Viviane Arigne
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Epistemic modal credence

, 2021
Triviality results threaten plausible principles governing our credence in epistemic modal claims. This paper develops a new account of modal credence which avoids triviality. On the resulting theory, probabilities are assigned not to sets of worlds, but rather to sets of information state- world pairs.
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A Comparative Analysis of Epistemic and Root Modality in Two selected English Books in the Field of Applied Linguistics Written by English Native and Iranian Non-native Writers [PDF]

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2017
Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis.
Minoo Shahmohammadi, Nasser Ghafoori
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Episteemilise modaalsuse leksikaalsete väljendusvahendite tajumisest: arvatavasti, äkki ja võib-olla

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
Kokkuvõte. Artiklis on vaatluse all episteemilise modaalsuse leksikaalsete väljendusvahendite (markerite) arvatavasti, võib-olla ja äkki tõenäosuse tajumine.
Laura Tüüts, Reili Argus
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EPISTEMIC MODALITY: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF EPISTEMIC MARKERS IN EU AND POLISH JUDGMENTS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019
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 ...
Dariusz KOŹBIAŁ
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Probability for epistemic modalities

, 2021
This paper develops an information-sensitive theory of the semantics and probability of conditionals and statements involving epistemic modals. The theory validates a number of principles linking probability and modality, including the principle that the probability of a conditional If A, then C equals the probability of C, updated with A.
Goldstein, Simon, Santorio, Paolo
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WEAK EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN THE UK PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE [PDF]

Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2014
Discourse strategies of boosting and downtoning seem to play a paramount role in political discourse – persuading the electorate and defending one own’s position when ‘attacked’ liken the political battle to an actual war battle, whereby going on ...
Milica Vukovic
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Il congiuntivo nell’italiano scritto e parlato [PDF]

Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015
The article deals with the usage of the subjunctive in contemporary Italian against the background of the grammatical rules that determine its usage in standard Italian.
Klímová Eva
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