Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Evidentiality revisited (by Marin Arrese, Juana I.); 2. Section A. Evidentiality: Cognitive Grammar and Functional Grammar Approaches; 3. Evidentiality in Cognitive Grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 4. Evidentiality reconsidered (by Nuyts, Jan); 5. Section B. Evidentiality in Grammar and Discourse; 6. On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian: A morpho-syntactic analysis (by Bohm, Veronica); 7. When feeling is thinking: A lexical-semantic analysis of evidential and epistemic predicates in Spanish (by Mulder, Gijs); 8. Seem-type verbs in Dutch and German: Lijken, schijnen & scheinen (by Mortelmans, Tanja); 9. A synchronic and diachronic study of the Dutch Auxiliary "Zou(den)" (by Harmes, Ingeborg); 10. Potential vs Use: Revisiting an evidential participial construction in Lithuanian (by Usoniene, Aurelija); 11. Section C. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres; 12. Multifunctionality of evidential expressions in discourse domains and genres: Evidence from cross-linguistic case studies (by Marin Arrese, Juana I.); 13. Evidential and epistemic stance strategies in scientific communication: A corpus study of semi-formal and expert publications (by Hidalgo-Downing, Laura); 14. BE likely to and BE expected to, epistemic modality or evidentiality?: Markers of (non)commitment in newspaper discourse (by Besnard, Anne-Laure); 15. Markers of evidentiality in Lithuanian newspaper discourse: A corpus-based study (by Ruskan, Anna); 16. Exploring evidential uses of the passive of reporting verbs through corpus analysis (by Breeze, Ruth)
