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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 &
John Cantwell, Niels Skovgaard-Olsen
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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 Expressivists 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).
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals
Journal of Philosophical LogicMinor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H Holliday +2 more
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Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2015 Epistemic modals are a prominent topic in the literature on natural language semantics, with wide-ranging implications for issues in philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Considerations about the role that epistemic might and must play in discourse and reasoning have led to the development of several important alternatives to classical ...
Malte Willer
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Stance modals in Chinese EFL learners' monologue tasks: A corpus-based study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates how Chinese tertiary-level EFL learners used modals as linguistic devices for expressing stances in spoken English. Modals convey speakers' commitment to propositions (epistemic stance) and intentions to affect reality (effective ...
Wei Wang, Haixiao Wang
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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2018 In the present study, samples of late Modern English scientific texts have been analysed to evaluate cases of epistemic modality as realised by modal verbs.
Francisco J. Álvarez Gil
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 Recently, a number of theorists (MacFarlane (2003, 2011), Egan, Hawthorne & Weatherson (2005), Egan (2007), Stephenson (2007a,b)) have argued that an adequate semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist ...
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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Linguistics and PhilosophyThe 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 ...
Deniz Rüdin
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature.
Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood
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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, .
C. Dorr, J. Hawthorne
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