Evidentiality and epistemological stance: narrative retelling
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Main Author: Mushin, Ilana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2001
Series:Pragmatics & beyond 87
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and indexes
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Evidentiality; Chapter 3: Epistemological stance; Chapter 4: Epistemological stance adoption in narrative retelling; Chapter 5: Reportive epistemological stance realisation in Macedonian, Japanese and English; Chapter 6: Reportive strategies in narrative retelling; Chapter 7: Deviations from a reportive epistemological stance; Notes; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Language index; Name index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 240 pages)
ISBN:1588110338
9027251061
9027298122
9781588110336
9789027251060
9789027298126

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