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Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance

Author : Ilana Mushin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027251061
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance by : Ilana Mushin

Download or read book Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance written by Ilana Mushin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an 'epistemological stance' a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their own subjectivity, their motivations to tell a coherent and exciting story, and their motivations to be faithful retellers of someone elses' story. These pressures are further complicated by the grammatical and pragmatic conventions that are particular to each language. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.

Studies in Evidentiality

Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027229625
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Evidentiality by : Robert M. W. Dixon

Download or read book Studies in Evidentiality written by Robert M. W. Dixon and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.

Evidence for Evidentiality

Author : Ad Foolen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263914
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidence for Evidentiality by : Ad Foolen

Download or read book Evidence for Evidentiality written by Ad Foolen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions, grammatical or lexical, have been studied in recent years under the cover term of evidentiality research. The present volume contributes 11 new studies to this flourishing field, all exploring evidential phenomena in a range of languages (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Khalkha Mongolian, Spanish, Tibetan, Yurakaré), using a variety of methodologies. Evidential meaning is discussed in relation to other semantic dimensions, such as epistemic modality, semantic roles, commitment, quotative meaning, and tense. The volume is of interest to scholars and students who are interested in up-to-date methods and frameworks for studying evidential meaning and the various ways it is expressed in the languages of the world.

Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance

Author : Ilana Mushin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588110336
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance by : Ilana Mushin

Download or read book Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance written by Ilana Mushin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an 'epistemological stance' - a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their own subjectivity, their motivations to tell a coherent and exciting story, and their motivations to be faithful retellers of someone elses' story. These pressures are further complicated by the grammatical and pragmatic conventions that are particular to each language. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries

Author : Bert Cornillie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110186116
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries by : Bert Cornillie

Download or read book Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries written by Bert Cornillie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth study of the conceptual and formal differences between evidential and epistemic auxiliaries in Spanish. The proposed account explores the parallelism between form and meaning and is based on frequency tests in spoken, written, synchronic and diachronic corpora. By doing so, the book not only constitutes a considerable innovation with respect to the previous Spanish accounts in terms of (subject) raising, but also adds a new dimension to Cognitive Grammar notions such as transparency, focal prominence, profile, dynamic reference point and subjectification.

Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

Author : Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110223961
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages by : Gabriele Diewald

Evidentiality

Author : A. Iu Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199263884
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality by : A. Iu Aikhenvald

Download or read book Evidentiality written by A. Iu Aikhenvald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called 'evidentiality', and is one of the least described grammatical categories. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness and noneyewitness, or reported and everything else), while others have six or even more terms. Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subcategory of epistemic or some other modality, nor of tense-aspect. Every language has some way of referring to the source of information, but not every language has grammatical evidentiality. In English expressions such as I guess, they say, I hear that, the alleged are not obligatory and do not constitute a grammatical system. Similar expressions in other languages may provide historical sources for evidentials. True evidentials, by contrast, form a grammatical system. In the North Arawak language Tariana an expression such as "the dog bit the man" must be augmented by a grammatical suffix indicating whether the event was seen, or heard, or assumed, or reported. This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. Examples are drawn from over 500 languages from all over the world, several of them based on the author's original fieldwork. Professor Aikhenvald also considers the role evidentiality plays in human cognition, and the ways in which evidentiality influences human perception of the world.. This is an important book on an intriguing subject. It will interest anthropologists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists.

Evidentiality

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191532541
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Download or read book Evidentiality written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called 'evidentiality', and is one of the least described grammatical categories. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness and noneyewitness, or reported and everything else), while others have six or even more terms. Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subcategory of epistemic or some other modality, nor of tense-aspect. Every language has some way of referring to the source of information, but not every language has grammatical evidentiality. In English expressions such as I guess, they say, I hear that, the alleged are not obligatory and do not constitute a grammatical system. Similar expressions in other languages may provide historical sources for evidentials. True evidentials, by contrast, form a grammatical system. In the North Arawak language Tariana an expression such as "the dog bit the man" must be augmented by a grammatical suffix indicating whether the event was seen, or heard, or assumed, or reported. This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. Examples are drawn from over 500 languages from all over the world, several of them based on the author's original fieldwork. Professor Aikhenvald also considers the role evidentiality plays in human cognition, and the ways in which evidentiality influences human perception of the world.. This is an important book on an intriguing subject. It will interest anthropologists, cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists.

Evidentiality Revisited

Author : Juana I. Marín Arrese
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726614X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality Revisited by : Juana I. Marín Arrese

Download or read book Evidentiality Revisited written by Juana I. Marín Arrese and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic expressions as resources for stancetaking in discourse. The volume addresses issues such as the relationship between the conceptual domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, the role of evidential and epistemic resources in modelling stancetaking, the expression of speaker commitment to the validity status of the information, and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres. The volume offers a collection of contributions in which cross-linguistic studies and corpus-based studies contribute to provide further insights into a usage-based account of linguistic reality.

Evidentiality in Interaction

Author : Janis Nuckolls
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270015
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality in Interaction by : Janis Nuckolls

Download or read book Evidentiality in Interaction written by Janis Nuckolls and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2, 2012), draws together complementary perspectives on the social and interactional life of evidentiality, drawing on data from diverse languages, including Albanian, English, Garrwa (Pama-Nyungan, Australia), Huamalíes Quechua (Quechuan, Peru), Nanti (Arawak, Peru), and Pastaza Quichua (Quechuan, Ecuador). The language-specific studies in this volume are all based on the close analysis of discourse or communicative interaction, and examine both evidential systems of varying degrees of grammaticalization and 'evidential strategies' present in languages without grammaticalized evidentials. The analyses presented draw on conversational analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnopoetics, pragmatics, and theories of deixis and indexicality, and will be of interest to students of evidentiality in a variety of analytical traditions.

Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish

Author : Carolina Figueras Bates
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263973
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish by : Carolina Figueras Bates

Download or read book Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish written by Carolina Figueras Bates and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse, which set of linguistic strategies evidentiality makes explicit, what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres, and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire, invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular, this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions, and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, and Psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191077399
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a range of devices from the lexical means in familiar European languages and in many languages of Aboriginal Australia to the highly grammaticalized systems in Amazonia or North America. In this handbook, experts from a variety of fields explore topics such as the relationship between evidentials and epistemic modality, contact-induced changes in evidential systems, the acquisition of evidentials, and formal semantic theories of evidentiality. The book also contains detailed case studies of evidentiality in language families across the world, including Algonquian, Korean, Nakh-Dagestanian, Nambikwara, Turkic, Uralic, and Uto-Aztecan.

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263906
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality by : Dalila Ayoun

Download or read book Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality written by Dalila Ayoun and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.

Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose

Author : Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000858057
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose written by Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa'dī, focusing on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world. The authors begin by introducing the concept of evidentiality; its definition, its coding in Persian, the rationale behind evidentiality analysis, and semantic-pragmatic functions of evidentiality. The book highlights how evidentiality can be accounted for as a stylistic device to reveal the validity of a narration, as well as the author’s commitment and contribution to it. Three of Sa'dī’s major works are analyzed – Būstān, Golestān and Sonnets – using Krippendoff's frequency approach. It is argued that Sa'dī deployed an array of evidentials in his work, from direct visual evidentials in Golestān and Sonnets to heard and quoted evidentials in Būstān. To illustrate this, the book includes translations of Sa'dī’s poetry and prose. In addition, the authors consider historical and contemporary manifestations of the Persian narrative style, as well as exploring the cultural concerns of the Persian speech community. The book will appeal to general linguists, practitioners of pragmatics and stylistics, literary critics, and those interested in contrastive analysis of literature and cultural studies.

Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement

Author : Henrik Bergqvist
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3961102708
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement written by Henrik Bergqvist and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages. Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that singal how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access (evidentials); the speaker’s involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the addressee’s knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker (engagement marking).

Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

Author : Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311022397X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages by : Gabriele Diewald

Download or read book Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages written by Gabriele Diewald and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.

Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German

Author : Richard J. Whitt
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034301527
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German by : Richard J. Whitt

Download or read book Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German written by Richard J. Whitt and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker's or writer's evidence for an asserted proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter century. Much of this attention has focused on languages that encode evidentiality in the grammar, while much less interest has been shown in languages that express evidentiality through means other than inflectional morphology. In English and German, for instance, the verbs of perception - those verbs denoting sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste - are prime carriers of evidential meaning. This study surveys the most prominent of the perception verbs in English and German across all five sensory modalities and accounts for the range of evidential meanings by examining the general polysemy found among perception verbs, as well as the specific complementation patterns in which these verbs occur.