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
doaj
Epistemic Modality and Coordination under Uncertainty [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2021 Communication facilitates coordination, but coordination might fail if there's too much uncertainty. I discuss a scenario in which vagueness-driven uncertainty undermines the possibility of publicly sharing a belief. I then show that asserting an epistemic modal sentence, 'Might p', can reveal the speaker's uncertainty, and that this may improve the ...
openaire +5 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Logic and Topology for Knowledge, Knowability, and Belief - Extended Abstract [PDF]
, 2017 In recent work, Stalnaker proposes a logical framework in which belief is realized as a weakened form of knowledge. Building on Stalnaker's core insights, and using frameworks developed by Bjorndahl and Baltag et al., we employ topological tools to ...
Bjorndahl, Adam, Özgün, Aybüke
core +2 more sources
La evidencialidad y la modalidad epistémica en los sermones católicos en español
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2014 Epistemic modality indicates the degree of certainty or doubt a speaker has for the proposition expressed by their utterance. Evidentiality, on the other hand, is the indication of the kind of evidence for a statement in question.
Małgorzata Wielgosz
doaj +1 more source
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Combining machine learning and probabilistic statistical learning is a powerful way to discover and design new materials. A variety of machine learning approaches can be used to identify promising candidates for target applications, and causal inference can help identify potential ways to make them a reality.
Jonathan Y. C. Ting, Amanda S. Barnard
wiley +1 more source
Evidencialidad y modalidad epistémica en dos variedades de toba habladas en Formosa, Argentina
Lexis, 2017 This paper analyzes morphosyntactic strategies that encode evidentiality and epistemic modality in eastern and western Toba (Formosa, Argentina), from the functional typological perspective (Chafe 1986; Bybee et al.
María Belén Carpio +1 more
doaj +1 more source
A Pragmatic Analysis of the Pedagogical Implications of the Use of English Epistemic Modality Written Literary Discourse [PDF]
, 2019 This is a pragmatic study of the use of the items of epistemic modality in a literary discourse with the main aims to identify, analyze and describe the ways the items of epistemic modality are used.
Muhaimi, L. (Lalu) +1 more
core
Epistemic artifacts and the modal dimension of modeling [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021 AbstractThe epistemic value of models has traditionally been approached from a representational perspective. This paper argues that the artifactual approach evades the problem of accounting for representation and better accommodates the modal dimension of modeling.
openaire +3 more sources
, 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
semanticscholar +1 more source