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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Many studies and initiatives are animated by the potential for science education to intervene in the climate crisis and crises of environmental degradation and disinformation. For science teachers to learn to address these issues in their classes, their teaching must expand beyond scientific facts and face controversial social aspects. Dealing
Valeria M. Cabello +2 more
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SAGE OpenEpistemic stance is adopted as an approach to convey the speakers’ certainty about knowledge and beliefs. This research aims to make a comprehensive comparison between professional live streamers and Chinese college students in terms of epistemic stance ...
Shuang Wang
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The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study
Topics in Linguistics, 2015 The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures – more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e.
Machová Dagmar
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Strategic Content: Representations of Epistemic Modality in Biosemantics [PDF]
, 2018 A central idea in Ruth Millikan’s biosemantics is that a representation’s content is restricted to conditions required for the normal success of actions that it has as its function to guide. This paper raises and responds to a problem for this idea.
Björnsson, Gunnar
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Linguistics and PhilosophyAbstract 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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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Considering the growing calls for decolonial approaches within the scope of Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), in this research we seek to understand the meanings which have been put into circulation through research narratives on Environmental Education (EE) concluded in Latin America, regarding Afro‐Amerindian knowledges ...
Danilo Seithi Kato +1 more
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Research Interviews in Historical Practice
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.A key difference between collecting life stories and doing research interviews is the role of the interviewer. While training in oral history may focus on using standard scripts to take a life story, research interviews are motivated by specific questions that arise from particular historical projects and are often not primarily focused on the ...
Lara Keuck, Soraya de Chadarevian
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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, 2018 In the philosophical literature on the definition of lying, the analysis is generally restricted to cases of flat-out belief. This chapter considers the complex phenomenon of lies involving partial beliefs – beliefs ranging from mere uncertainty to ...
Marsili, Neri
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