How to show things with words: a study on logic, language and literature
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linhares-Dias, Rui (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ;New York M. de Gruyter c2006
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 155
Subjects:
Online Access:DE-824
DE-706
Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-518) and indexes
Biographical note: Rui Linhares-Dias, Universidade dos Açores,Ponta Delgada, Azores Archipelago, Portugal
Main description: This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive processes inherent in eventuality-description types
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 544 p)
ISBN:3110179954
9783110179958
9783110899627

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text