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Evidentiality Revisited

Author : Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266149

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Evidentiality Revisited by Juana I. Marín Arrese,Gerda Haßler,Marta Carretero Pdf

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.

Evidence for Evidentiality

Author : Ad Foolen,Helen de Hoop,Gijs Mulder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263919

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Evidence for Evidentiality by Ad Foolen,Helen de Hoop,Gijs Mulder Pdf

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.

Evidential Marking in European Languages

Author : Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726077

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Evidential Marking in European Languages by Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese Pdf

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality

Author : Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263902

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Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality by Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari Pdf

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.

Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110572261

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Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Zlatka Guentchéva Pdf

This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the structuring of these vast fields of enquiry and clearly demonstrates the relevance and interplay of multiple factors involved in the analysis of these two conceptual domains. Although the contributions present diverging descriptive traditions, they are nonetheless within the broad domain of functional-typological linguistics and give access to distinct yet comparable approaches. They all converge around a number of key issues: modal verbs; the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality; the relationship of modal notions with some tense and aspect notions; the notions of (inter)subjectivity, commitment and (dis)engagement; the prosodic variation of modal adverbs, the diachronic connections between negation and evidential markers, the connection with mirativity. The volume is of interest to linguists and advanced graduate students working in general and theoretical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and typology.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics

Author : Dale A. Koike,J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429849343

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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics by Dale A. Koike,J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including: • Discourse • Variation; Culture and interculture • (Im)politeness; humor • Learning contexts and teaching • Technology This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.

Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish

Author : Carolina Figueras Bates,Adrián Cabedo Nebot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263971

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Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish by Carolina Figueras Bates,Adrián Cabedo Nebot Pdf

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.

Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age

Author : Julia Lavid-López,Carmen Maíz-Arévalo,Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259684

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Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age by Julia Lavid-López,Carmen Maíz-Arévalo,Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla Pdf

Corpus-based contrastive and translation research are areas that keep evolving in the digital age, as the range of new corpus resources and tools expands, opening up to different approaches and application contexts. The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and translation research in the digital age, outlining some recent advances and explorations. After an introductory chapter which outlines language technologies applied to translation and interpreting with a view to identifying challenges and research opportunities, the first part of the book is devoted to current advances in the creation of new parallel corpora for under-researched areas, the development of tools to manage parallel corpora or as an alternative to parallel corpora, and new methodologies to improve existing translation memory systems. The contributions in the second part of the book address a number of cutting-edge linguistic issues in the area of contrastive discourse studies and translation analysis on the basis of comparable and parallel corpora in several languages such as English, German, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish, thus showcasing the richness of the linguistic diversity carried out in these recent investigations. Given the multiplicity of topics, methodologies and languages studied in the different chapters, the book will be of interest to a wide audience working in the fields of translation studies, contrastive linguistics and the automatic processing of language.

Revisiting Modality

Author : Vítor Míguez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246981

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Revisiting Modality by Vítor Míguez Pdf

This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion, how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation, and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs, which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse, challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.

Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century – Innovations and Technologies in Interdisciplinary Applications

Author : Ekaterina Isaeva,Álvaro Rocha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031280863

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Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century – Innovations and Technologies in Interdisciplinary Applications by Ekaterina Isaeva,Álvaro Rocha Pdf

This book comprises proceedings of the 2022 International Forum “Science and Global Challenges of the XXI Century”. The main principle of the Forum’s program is interdisciplinarity, the formation of end-to-end innovation chains: fundamental and applied research, technology development, implementation, and wide application of networks and systems. In 2022, the central theme of the forum is innovations and technologies in interdisciplinary applications. The book covers a wide range of knowledge-communication methodologies and effective technologies for processing data in various forms and areas. The book might interest researchers working at the interface of disciplines, such as e-learning, digital humanities, computational linguistics, cognitive studies, GIS, digital geography, machine learning, and others. It can also be a valuable source of information for Bachelor and Master students with open curricula or majors and minors who seek to find a balance between several fields of their interest.

Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography

Author : Radomir Bolgov,Vadim Atnashev,Yury Gladkiy,Art Leete,Alexey Tsyb,Sergey Pogodin,Andrei Znamenski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031206207

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Proceedings of Topical Issues in International Political Geography by Radomir Bolgov,Vadim Atnashev,Yury Gladkiy,Art Leete,Alexey Tsyb,Sergey Pogodin,Andrei Znamenski Pdf

This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, etc. Participants from all over the world consider the controversies and challenges posed by globalization, focusing, in particular, on the ideologies of globalization and regionalism, migration crises, prevention of ethnic conflicts, and measures to promote sustainable development. The content of the book may be interesting to expert community, academics and popular audience.

Verb and Context

Author : Susana Rodríguez Rosique,Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254993

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Verb and Context by Susana Rodríguez Rosique,Jordi M. Antolí Martínez Pdf

This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration. The aim of this book is to analyze the impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories as well as to explore its reflection on different verb choices. It provides an innovative theoretical view as well as a robust typological, crosslinguistic perspective.

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Author : Pascal Hohaus,Rainer Schulze
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260529

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Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions by Pascal Hohaus,Rainer Schulze Pdf

Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.

Law, Language and the Courtroom

Author : Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000483864

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Law, Language and the Courtroom by Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo Pdf

This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued, constructed, interpreted and perceived. Focusing on four central themes - constructing judicial discourse and judicial identities, judicial argumentation and evaluative language, judicial interpretation, and clarity in judicial discourse - the book’s ultimate goal is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of current critical issues of the role of language in judicial settings. Contributors include legal linguists, lawyers, legal scholars, legal practitioners, legal translators and anthropologists, who explore patterns of linguistic organisation and use in judicial institutions and analyse language as an instrument for understanding both the judicial decision-making process and its outcome. The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in legal linguistics and those specialising in judicial argumentation and reasoning ,and forensic linguists interested in the use of language in judicial settings.

Individuality in Language Change

Author : Lynn Anthonissen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725940

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Individuality in Language Change by Lynn Anthonissen Pdf

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.