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Acta AnalyticaAbstractIn this article, I explore an epistemic vice I call “evidential incognizance.” It is a vice of failing generally to recognize evidence, or recognize the full force of evidence, in a domain of knowledge. It frequently manifests as a kind of unbridled skepticism or hopelessness about knowing in the domain, including (but not limited to ...
Simon Rippon
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 The current demands placed on scientists to increase public awareness of their findings involves recontextualizing highly technical research to be understood by diversified audiences.
Rosa Lorés
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 This paper discusses three potential varieties of update: updates to the common ground, structuring updates, and updates that introduce discourse referents. These different types of update are used to model different aspects of natural language phenomena.
Sarah E Murray
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#Soundwordsmatter: Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Twitter discourse on racism
Dive-In, 2022 This paper presents the results of a corpus-based pilot study aiming to investigate whether and to what extent epistemicity and evidentiality contribute to the degree of assertiveness of discourse on Twitter.
Claudia Borghetti, Ana Pano Alamán
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Kalbotyra, 2017 The paper pivots around the different roles of evidentials and the different ways in which evidence is represented in the discourse of popular and academic history, thereby exploring the dynamics of both genres from a discourse analytical perspective ...
Marina Bondi, Annalisa Sezzi
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Exploring Metadiscourse Markers in Master Thesis Abstracts of TEFL Students: A Case of the University of Mazandaran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2021 MMetadiscourse as a self-reflective linguistic device plays an important role in both making a coherent academic text and interacting with readers. Using a sequential mixed method design, the present study investigated the use of metadiscourse markers in
Effatsadat Moafi +2 more
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Building a semantic map: top-down versus bottom-up approaches
Linguistic Discovery, 2010 This paper contrasts two methods for constructing semantic maps: the top-down model and the bottom-up model. It is argued that the bottom-up approach can be illuminating in solving long-standing issues.
Ferdinand de Haan
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Linguistic Discovery, 2010 Cross-linguistic generic categories like evidentiality, tense, aspect, number, and person are entrenched in linguistic theory. However, it is not clear whether there is much empirical substance to them.
Kasper Boye
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Evidentials are syntax-sensitive: The view from Bangla
Glossa, 2018 This paper studies an evidential in Bangla which changes its evidential flavor based on its syntactic position. Forging novel connections with the literature on finiteness, indexical shift, and complementizer agreement, this paper demonstrates how ...
Diti Bhadra
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Inferential Interrogatives with qué in Spanish
Languages, 2023 In this paper, we discuss the evidential properties of inferential interrogative sentences with qué in Spanish. This interrogative type exhibits the shape of a wh-question but the interpretation of a polar question.
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández +1 more
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