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Evidentials dizque and que in Spanish : Grammaticalization, parameters and the (fine) structure of Comp [PDF]
Linguística, 2013 In this paper we study one type of Spanish que (the equivalent to the complementizer “that”) that can be shown to belong into the crosslinguistically restricted list of evidentials.
Violeta Demonte, Olga Fernández-Soriano
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Synthese, 2021 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann D.
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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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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries [PDF]
, 2012 This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco +1 more
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Philosophy Compass, 2017 Abstract Evidential holism begins with something like the claim that “it is only jointly as a theory that scientific statements imply their observable consequences.” This is the holistic claim that Elliott Sober tells us is an “unexceptional observation” (1993: 35).
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SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY [PDF]
, 2013 The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification.
Hirschová, Milada
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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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(NON)-DETERMINING THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER: REPORTATIVE PARTICLES VERSUS VERBS [PDF]
, 2013 This work argues that the Basque reportative particle omen contributes to the propositional contents of the utterance, and it is not an illocutionary force indicator, contrary to what seems to be suggested by the standard view on omen. The results of the
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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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