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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 This paper investigates the distribution of epistemic modals in attitude contexts in three Romance languages, as well as their potential interaction with mood selection.
Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard
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On Altpedias: partisan epistemics in the encyclopaedias of alternative facts
Artnodes, 2020 This article considers how online alternative encyclopaedias, or ‘Altpedias’, create and maintain their own universes of “alternative facts”. We consider a selection of Altpedias that reject Wikipedia’s celebrated ‘neutral point of view’ as an artefact ...
Emillie V de Keulenaar +3 more
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The Role of Epistemics in Storytelling [PDF]
, 2023 Epistemics play a vital role in storytelling sequences. In fact, laying the necessary epistemic groundwork before engaging in a storytelling sequence may make the difference between successful and unsuccessful story receptions.
White, Ashley Kayla
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Propositional epistemic luck, epistemic risk, and epistemic justification [PDF]
Synthese, 2016 If a subject has a true belief, and she has good evidence for it, and there’s no evidence against it, why should it matter if she doesn’t believe on the basis of the good available evidence? After all, properly based beliefs are no likelier to be true than their corresponding improperly based beliefs, as long as the subject possesses the same good ...
Patrick Bondy, Duncan Pritchard
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The Grammar of Obviousness: The Palm-Up Gesture in Argument Sequences
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper investigates the body’s role in grammar in argument sequences. Drawing from a database of public disputes on language use, we document the work of the palm-up gesture in action formation.
Olivia H. Marrese +4 more
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Questions and questioning in Montenegrin police interviews [PDF]
, 2010 Questions are never asked without a reason, and whenever a question is made, it becomes a vehicle for another action. Questions, on their most basic level, endeavour to strike up an epistemic balance between the interlocutors in that the questioner ...
Cerovic, Marijana
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Responding to Information Requests: The Case of Inscribed Object Checks
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021 This paper explores one way that participants use inscribed objects in their immediate environment as resources for interaction. In particular, it identifies and analyzes a type of embodied response turn found in information request sequences.
Kelly Katherine Frantz
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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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American Journal of Islam and Society, 1990 Rationale and Context The idea of a Contrasting Episteme, as it is conceived in a series of essays on this theme: is suggested as an approach to grounding the matrix of inquiry in the social sciences in a new spatial zone of conceptual affinities.
Mona Abul-Fadl
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Epistemic anxiety and epistemic risk
Synthese, 2022 AbstractIn this paper, I provide an account of epistemic anxiety as an emotional response to epistemic risk: the risk of believing in error. The motivation for this account is threefold. First, it makes epistemic anxiety a species of anxiety, thus rendering psychologically respectable a notion that has heretofore been taken seriously only by ...
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