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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"epistemic modality"”.
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Epistemic modality in social science research articles written by Ghanaian authors : a corpus-based study of disciplinary and native vs. non-native variations
… of Sociology, Economics and Law deploy epistemic modality devices as rhetorical features of argumentation in their research articles (RAs) published in journals based in Ghana. The study focuses on understanding the ways in which the use of these rhetorical features by Ghanaian authors …
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Modality and inquiry
… we consider or eliminate in inquiry are epistemic possibilities. This dissertation is mainly about what it is to say or believe that something is possible in this sense. Chapter 1 ('Epistemic Contradictions') describes a new puzzle about epistemic modals and uses it to explore their logic …
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Acho que nunca antes na história deste país... modalização epistêmica deôntica e modalização epistêmica em cartas de leitores do período eleitoral para presidência da república
… analyze and interpret the expression of deontic modality and epistemic modality in readers' letters and the different argumentative orientations that make this textual genre possible. We verify also interfaces with the study of the referenciation and polyphony, because modalizing is also build …
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Strange Attitudes on Top
… for the possibility’) and the embedding of epistemic modal verbs under it. Chapter 2 looks at the (overall puzzling) want and its Slovenian counterpart hoteti, and at their behaviour with respect to embedded doxastic attitudes, epistemic adverbs, and epistemic adjectives. Chapter 3 looks at …
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A multimodal perspective on modality in the English language classroom
… of the way modal forms are presented to teach epistemic modality in many commercially produced English language teaching course books. I argue that for cognitive, social, linguistic and procedural reasons the linguistic forms and structures presented in the lesson are not straightforwardly …
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The Semantics of Indicative Mood Modal Constructions
… show that the contextualist view on "epistemic modals" held by Hacking, Teller and DeRose is incorrect. They argue that the examples support a relativistic semantics for epistemic modality. I argue that not every utterance of a modal sentence involving 'may' or 'possible that' …
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
… are analysed within the conceptual categories of epistemic modality, evidentiality and vagueness. The results of the research suggest that the variety of hedging devices is determined by the discipline, whereas the type of the most frequent lexical hedges depends on the language (English vs. …
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Modality and facivity : One perspective on the meaning of the English modal auxiliaries
This study concentrates on modality as expressed by the set of modal auxiliaries and seeks to establish that these verbs share semantic as well as syntactic properties by identifying a single core meaning which they share. The relationship between modality and factivity is examined with the aim of …
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Coordination in conversation
I give an account of the meaning of epistemic modals-words like 'might' and 'must', on a broadly epistemic interpretation-and how speakers use them to coordinate on their information. I begin by exploring what epistemic modals mean. Motivated by embedding data which are problematic for almost all …
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Persuasion in Context: Understanding the Impact of Communication Modality, Gender, Ethnicity, Cognitive, and Linguistic Style Volume One Claire L.
… analysis including linguistic synchronicity and epistemic modality, on persuasion outcomes. The combined results highlighted how the virtual environment was akin to the FtF modality, showing a propensity for successful persuasive outcomes and increased metacognitive confidence in attitude change. …
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Modality and evidentiality in political discourse : a cognitive-functional account
… a new theoretical framework for analyzing modality in political discourse from a cognitive-functional perspective. The second is to explore the types, forms, values and functions of modality in English political speeches both quantitatively and qualitatively. The third is to identify and …
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Four pieces for modality, context and usage
… Chapter 2 introduces new semantics for epistemic modality. I argue that the epistemic modal base consists of the propositions that can be obtained by the interlocutors early enough to affect their resolution of their current practical goal. Integrated into the standard contextualist …
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On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic
… the understanding of temporal interpretation of epistemic modals in Palestinian Arabic (PA), and develop a cross-linguistic analysis. The epistemic necessity modal <em>akeed</em> and the epistemic possibility modal <em>yimkin</em> in PA exhibit similar temporal configurations to English epistemic …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… the interactions of tense, aspect, and modality, a fragment of English is given in a Multi-Modal Combinatorial Categorial Grammar (Baldridge & Kruijff, Steedman 2012). Modal auxiliaries are given verb-like lexical entries in the grammar using lexical entries that combine features from …