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LanguagesThis paper examines the orientation of evidentials in complements of attitude verbs, with Paraguayan Guarani evidential ra’e as a case study. It argues that embedded evidentials can be directed either towards the speaker or towards a matrix attitude ...
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
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The Appearance of Turkish Grammatical Evidentials in Fictional Narratives and Their Translation into English: The Case of “My Name is Red” / Türkçe Dil Bilgisel Kanıtsalların Kurgusal Anlatıda Kullanımı ve İngilizceye Çevirisi: “Benim Adım Kırmızı” Örneği [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2023 In this study, we investigate the lexical markers and the evidential strategies used for grammatical evidentials in the Turkish to English translations of Orhan Pamuk’s novel “My Name is Red”. The objective of the study is to determine the equivalents
Melike Üzüm* +2 more
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Pragmatic functions of evidentiality in diplomatic discourse: Toward a new analytical framework
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper examines the pragmatic functions of evidentiality categories in diplomatic discourse by illustrating a new classification of English evidentiality. It adopts a data-based approach by analyzing a corpus of thirty English political speeches from
Zhongyi Xu
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Patterns of evidentials use in dream narratives
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2023 The article presents a study on evidentials use in dream reports collected from online dream journals. First, I discuss the relation between the categories of stance and evidentiality.
Valeriia Nikolaienko
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An Analysis of Colloquial Singapore English lah and Its Interpretation across Speech Acts
Languages, 2022 Previous research has observed that the Colloquial Singapore English particle lah conveys many different, and sometimes contradictory, pragmatic effects.
Junwen Lee
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THE LOGIC OF THE EVIDENTIAL CONDITIONAL
The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2021 AbstractIn some recent works, Crupi and Iacona proposed an analysis of ‘if’ based on Chrysippus’ idea that a conditional holds whenever the negation of its consequent is incompatible with its antecedent. This paper presents a sound and complete system of conditional logic that accommodates their analysis. The soundness and completeness proofs that will
Eric Raidl +2 more
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On evidentiality in American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 This paper discusses the indirect evidential markers dizque in American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese by focusing on the Spanish varieties of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Lima (Peru), and the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo (Brazil).
Gabriel Martínez Vera
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Sentential evidentials in Englihs medical research papers
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2012 This paper studies evidentiality in a corpus of medical research papers in English and Spanish. We concentrate on sentential evidentials, i.e. evidentials affecting a complete proposition, in both languages.
Heather Adams, Francisco Alonso Almeida
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Evidentials and advertising: a sample study
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2017 This paper explores the use of evidential devices in press adverts in English in a compilation of original advertisements. Due to the appellative nature of advertising discourse, I think that these texts are likely to convey source of knowledge through ...
Laura Cruz García
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Evidentiality in Spoken Catalan. The Evidential Marker "diu que"
Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística, 2020 This study deals with an Catalan evidential marker without a written tradition, but mainly an oral one: diu que (‘(s)he.says.that’, ‘it is said that’), a Romance correlate for dizque (Spanish) or dice che (Italian) (cf. Travis 2006, Cruschina 2015, Alcázar 2018).
Jordi M. Antolí Martínez +1 more
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